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dockworker

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Dockworker (noun) means someone employed at a harbour or shipyard, mainly to load and unload cargo.

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Someone employed at a harbour or shipyard, mainly to load and unload cargo.

"The East Coast dockworkers understand what’s happening around the world." — Heather Long, The real reason 47,000 dockworkers are on strike (2024)

"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.”" — N. R. Kleinfield, Dockworkers See Shoe on Other Foot After a Scandal (2009)

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