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DOCKWORKER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does dockworker mean?

• DOCKWORKER (noun)
The noun DOCKWORKER has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: DOCKWORKER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DOCKWORKER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dock worker; dock-walloper; docker; dockhand; dockworker; loader; longshoreman; lumper; stevedore

Hypernyms ("dockworker" is a kind of...):

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

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