dock worker

1. 1.

   a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

   Synonymsstevedoreloaderlongshoremandockerdockhanddockworkerdock-walloperlumper

   Broaderlaborer

Questions about dock worker

What does dock worker mean?

dock worker means "a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port".

What is another word for dock worker?

Close synonyms include stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dock worker a common word?

dock worker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.