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docker

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Occupations, Water
dock·er /ˈdɒkə $ ˈdɑːkər/ noun [countable] British English  BOTTWsomeone whose job is loading and unloading ships 码头工人 SYN American English longshoreman
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dockerI remember one feller that came in - a respectable buck, a docker.He was a docker, living in Artillery Lane off Bishopsgate, not far from Houndsditch.Round the Docks and St Anne's Street, batting dockers and labourers.Three days later 1,000 London dockers marched in support of the speech.Not till ten years later, however, did the London dockers stage their great historic strike.After another short chat they joined the exodus of dockers leaving the ship.The place where rivermen dockers and farmworkers could relax after a hard day's work.While the newcomers slept, George, Marc, Alan and Jimmy moved the last few hundred items off the docker.
From Longman Business Dictionarydockerdock‧er /ˈdɒkəˈdɑːkər/ noun [countable] British EnglishJOB someone whose job is loading and unloading shipsSYN longshoreman, AmE stevedoreDockers were on strike in the port of Durres.
dock·er nounChineseSyllable
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docker
docker /ˈdɒkə $ ˈdɑːkər/ noun [countable] British English
someone whose job is loading and unloading ships
   SYN  longshoreman American English


dock·erBrE /ˈdɒkə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈdɑːkər/ 🔊 nouna person whose job is moving goods on and off ships 码头工人