noun
docker
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noun
1
A person who loads and unloads ships at a port.
"His grandfather worked as a docker on the Liverpool waterfront."
How to Use Docker
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA dockworker — someone employed loading and unloading cargo at a port.
Common pairings
a docker's union
work as a docker
Word Forms
dockers plural, dockers plural, Dockers plural
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Etymology
From dock (the harbour sense) + the agent suffix -er.