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dock worker

NOUN
  1. a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

How To Use dock worker In A Sentence

  • He stopped the seamen and dock workers joining the strike, but he did not take too hard a line.
  • Hundreds of dock workers clashed with police early Thursday morning in Charleston, South Carolina during a protest against the use of nonunion longshoremen to load a cargo ship.
  • With ships arriving faster than dock workers can handle them, the ports can't keep ahead of the rising tide of Pacific Rim cargo.
  • Over 2,000 dock workers immediately walked out despite the judgment and despite the advice given by their leaders not to do so.
  • The dock workers could smuggle nationalist leaders into ships as stowaways.
  • India's export performance is under threat from workforce instability that has led to strikes by port and dock workers.
  • It owes its second chance of life to an alert dock worker.
  • It was unaffected by the dock worker issue because its major port of entry for Japanese parts is in Mexico.
  • Dispatchers and dock workers can identify regional shipments in the system and keep them on schedule.
  • The docks on the inner city were a mixture of busy dock workers loading and unloading cargo, while wealthy merchants haggled back and forth about the costs and duties on their wares.
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