Usually means: Laborer loading and unloading ships.
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  1. dockworker: Merriam-Webster
  2. dockworker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dockworker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. dockworker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dockworker: Wiktionary
  8. dockworker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  11. Dockworker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  13. dockworker: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  15. dockworker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. dockworker: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dockworker)

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

Similar:
dockman, shipworker, stevedore, weigher, longshoreman, wharfman, longshorewoman, stowadore, heaver, railworker, more...

Opposite:
office worker, white-collar worker, professional

Types:
longshoreman, dockhand, wharfinger, pier worker, dock laborer, more...

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Similar:
dockman, shipworker, stevedore, weigher, longshoreman, wharfman, longshorewoman, stowadore, heaver, railworker, more...

Opposite:
office worker, white-collar worker, professional

Types:
longshoreman, dockhand, wharfinger, pier worker, dock laborer, more...



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