dockworker
/dok-wur-ker/US // ˈdɒkˌwɜr kər //
码头工人,码头工,船坞工人,码头工作人员
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a person employed on the docks of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.
Examples
More information sharing — including over a longer time period — would allow carriers, terminals, truckers and dockworkers to better position equipment and people.
Lichtenstein, the labor historian, points to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, a powerful West Coast waterfront union that inked an agreement with shippers in 1958 to get dockworkers a slice of the gains from automation.
When she was young, her communist parents brought her along as they tried to persuade dockworkers to unionize, filling her stroller with leaflets.
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