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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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.”
The East Coast dockworkers understand what’s happening around the world.
Use dockworker when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dockworker means A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight..
Common synonyms include docker, stevedore, longshoreman, wharfie.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.”
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