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单词 docker
释义
docker
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɒk.ər/us
/ˈdɑː.kɚ/
(alsodockworker,uk/ˈdɒk.wɜː.kər/us/ˈdɑːk.wɜ˞ːkɚ/)
apersonwhoworksat aport, puttinggoodsonto and taking them offships
码头装卸工
Synonyms
longshoremanUS
stevedore
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
People who work on boats & ships
  • bargee
  • bargeman
  • boatman
  • cabin boy
  • cabin crew
  • corsair
  • crew
  • crew member
  • deckhand
  • freighter
  • gondolier
  • helmsman
  • longshoreman
  • pilot
  • punter
  • run away to seaidiom
  • sailor
  • sea dog
  • shipmate
  • stevedore
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(Definition ofdockerfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • He was fifty-four and a broken-down docker.
  • The dockers crowd at the entrance gate, and curse and turn away when the foreman does not give them a call.
  • The fact that the dockers have no courage about their employers may be largely the employers' fault.
  • To a docker making twenty shillings a week the difference of two shillings is not merely important, it is vital.
  • What would the dockers say if one of these establishments was instituted by the municipality for the loading and unloading of ships?

docker| Business English

docker
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɒkər/us
TRANSPORT
→dockworker
(Definition ofdockerfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdocker

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The foundation of the docker's union takes place, not in the communal arena of the public-house, but in the cocoa rooms near the docks.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The two groups both carry heavy loads, but the timber dockers commonly lift and carry in the erect posture and the general dockers habitually stoop to lift.
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September 1893: 1), suggests its regular use by the dockers, as otherwise under capitalist economics it would have been converted into a public house to create or satisfy demand.
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He said that bitterness in the docks was such as to make any reconciliation between the dockers and the employers impossible, as, so he said.
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Ships now spend less time in port, so port facilities must be used more intensively; fewer berths are needed, and therefore fewer dockers.
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Large numbers appear to be exempt—agricultural workers, coalminers, dockers, merchant seamen, policemen, firemen, and those employed in a managerial, professional, administrative, or executive capacity.
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Refunds not only in respect of seamen are recorded but also of dockers, share fishermen and others.
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Whatever else one may think of the episode last summer when five dockers' shop stewards went to gaol, no one can claim—or can they?
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What makes the dockers suspicious is that they are tired of being given assurances.
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The dockers are workers who have these fears that they will be oppressed.
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The loans are for severance pay and for helping, by compensation payments, dockers who have to leave the industry.
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There has been a spate of newspaper articles criticising the payment to dockers of subsidies in the form of supplementary benefits.
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I was one of those who were responsible for the great conflict in 1889, when the fight was for the dockers' tanner.
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One of the bases of the scheme was that all dockers in all ports should be treated alike.
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Those whiskies had been put there by dockers who were desperate to win the favour of the man who gave them their daily bread.
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