0 a person who works at a port, putting goods onto and taking them off ships
1 → dockworker
2 to work moving goods on and off ships:
He has been stevedoring for 25 years.
They were not even allowed to work as stevedores on the riverfront docks.
In order to bring some unity of control, there are shipowners who have their own berths and run subsidiary stevedore companies.
I do not consider that an engine driver or a railway porter is engaged on the same labour as a dock labourer or a stevedore.
The private stevedores, by bad labour relations, have gained the "swag".
A coal trimmer might go to six different stevedores.
The information this morning showed the total number of stevedores and dockers on strike as 15,030.
Then it must renegotiate the leases and the contracts to bring the bananas in, which of course involves the stevedores.
The very serious omission of any form of charges that will be levied by the stevedores and their employers is a most important one.