Stevedore vs. Docker

Stevedorenoun

A dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo, or in supervising such work.

Stevedoreverb

(transitive) To load or unload a ship's cargo.

Stevedorenoun

One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

Stevedorenoun

a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

Stevedore

A stevedore (), also called a longshoreman, a docker or a dockworker, is a waterfront manual laborer who is involved in loading and unloading ships, trucks, trains or airplanes. After the shipping container revolution of the 1960s, the number of dockworkers required declined by over 90%, and the term has increasingly come to mean a stevedoring firm that contracts with a port, shipowner, or charterer to load and unload a vessel.

Dockernoun

One who performs docking, as of tails.

Dockernoun

A dockworker.

Dockernoun

a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port.

Dockernoun

a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port