dockworker

English

Alternative forms

• dock worker

Etymology

From dock +‎ worker.

Pronunciation

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Noun

dockworker (plural dockworkers)

1. A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight.

   Synonyms: docker; stevedore (UK), longshoreman (US), wharfie (ANZ)

   Hypernyms: tradesperson (usually, in modern practice), laborer (historically); < worker, < person

   Hyponyms: dockman, wharfman; wharf rat

   Coordinate terms: dockmaster, wharfmaster; fieldworker, factoryworker, mineworker

   • 2009 August 13, N. R. Kleinfield, “Dockworkers See Shoe on Other Foot After a Scandal”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Red Hook is fabled dockworker territory, not necessarily for inspirational reasons. The mob violence and union corruption that long defined the piers were part of the underpinnings of the classic 1954 movie “On the Waterfront.”

   • 2024 October 1, Heather Long, “The real reason 47,000 dockworkers are on strike”, in The Washington Post‎^[2]:

     The East Coast dockworkers understand what’s happening around the world.

Related terms

• dockworking

Translations

worker at a dock

• Bulgarian: до́кер m (dóker)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碼頭工人／码头工人 (mǎtou gōngrén)

• Finnish: satamatyöntekijä, satamatyöläinen (generally); ahtaaja (fi) (loader and unloader)
• French: docker (fr) m
• German: Hafenarbeiter (de) m
• Irish: dugaire m
• Italian: stivatore m
• Japanese: 港湾労働者 (こうわんろうどうしゃ, kōwan rōdōsha)
• Polish: portowiec (pl) m, doker (pl) m
• Portuguese: estivador (pt) m
• Romanian: docher (ro) m
• Russian: до́кер (ru) m (dóker), порто́вый рабо́чий m (portóvyj rabóčij), порто́вый гру́зчик m (portóvyj grúzčik)
• Swedish: hamnarbetare (sv) c
• Vietnamese: khuân vác (vi)