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dockworkers

dockworkers is the plural of dockworker.

Meaning of dockworker

Noun

dockworker (plural dockworkers)

  1. A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight.
    • 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.”2009 August 13, N. R. Kleinfield, “Dockworkers See Shoe on Other Foot After a Scandal”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 May 2015

Questions about dockworkers

What is dockworkers the plural of?
Dockworkers is the plural of dockworker.

Words near dockworkers in the dictionary

  1. Dockters
  2. Docktor
  3. dockwalloper
  4. dockwallopers
  5. dockworker
  6. dockworkers
  7. dockworking
  8. docky
  9. docky time
  10. dockyard
  11. dockyardman

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