Meaning

1 senses
  1. A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight.

    Hafenarbeiter

    до́керdóker, порто́вый рабо́чийportóvyj rabóčij, порто́вый гру́зчикportóvyj grúzčik

More definitions
  • a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Many dockworkers are currently out of work.

  2. We saw many dockworkers unloading the ship.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
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Deutsch
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Forms

plural: dockworkers

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

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