dockworker

A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.

• 🇩🇪Arbeiter, der im Hafen Schiffe be- und entlädt.

1. Port laborer B1 formal

   A worker who loads and unloads cargo from ships at a port.

   • The dockworker unloaded the containers from the ship.
   • Dockworkers use cranes and forklifts to move heavy cargo.
   • He has worked as a dockworker at the port for ten years.

   🇩🇪Hafenarbeiter

   Synonyme: dockerdockhandlongshoremanlumperstevedore

• dockworkers plural form
• dockworkers' possessive plural form
• dockworker's possessive singular form