Meaning & use
stevedore
A person employed to load and unload cargo from ships at a dock.
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The stevedores worked through the night unloading crates from the freighter.
His grandfather had been a stevedore on the docks for over thirty years.
A note on using this word
A somewhat old-fashioned or formal term; "dockworker" or "longshoreman" are more common in everyday American English.
Words with a similar meaning
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