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docker¹ Definition

docker (däkər)

noun

Chiefly Brit. longshoreman
docker² Definition

docker (däkər)

noun

a person or thing that docks
docker Usage Examples

Possessives

  • strike: The San Pedro dockers ' strike brought Joe's first recorded trouble with the police.
  • dispute: It's the anniversary of the dockers ' dispute.
  • leader: Former Liverpool dockers ' leader Jimmy Nolan has evidently withdrawn from the NEC.
  • action: On the positive side we can, paradoxically, report the end of the Liverpool dockers ' protest action in early 1998!
  • demand: After five weeks the employers accepted defeat and granted all the dockers ' main demands.

Converse of object

  • sack: I wrote the first speech for the scab, but the heart and soul of the scene came from a sacked docker.
  • include: His slogans won some support among the poor, including many dockers.
  • employ: Lawyers for the Government claimed that the NDLB scheme meant that it did not employ the dockers.
  • organize: This scheme was introduced by the government in the late 1940s to organize the docker 's labor at ports.
  • help: Trade Unions in Australia sent over £ 30,000 to help the dockers to continue the struggle.
  • get: And yet you couldn't get the dockers in this country, their own country, out on strike.

Adjective modifier

  • former: The next stage will be to establish that the Government is liable to pay compensation to the former dockers for their ill health.
  • striking: Scenario 2 Image: Striking dockers - not the ideal sight for a harassed ferry tour operator!
  • French: Eight Belgium workers were given jail terms of one to four months and one French docker was jailed for three months.
  • East: Its strength came from Spitalfields silk-weavers and East End dockers - the poor.
  • Canadian: So the Canadian dockers were then on strike in support of the Liverpool dockers.

Modifies a noun

  • dispute: Being from Liverpool myself I obviously knew about the dockers dispute but this drama gives you a totally new insight.
  • union: The struggle is not officially recognized by the dockers union, the TGWU.

Noun used with modifier

  • repeat: In the Step and repeat docker, type a value in the Number of copies box.
  • end: Its strength came from Spitalfields silk-weavers and East End dockers - the poor.

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