docker

chiefly British
as in stevedore
one who loads and unloads ships at a port dockers threatened to go on strike and shut down all shipping on the Thames

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Recent Examples of docker The West Ham dockers were based in the Royal Docks while their Millwall counterparts were based in the Surrey Commercial Docks in Rotherhithe. Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025 The West Ham dockers were based in the Royal Docks while their Millwall counterparts were based in the Surrey Commercial Docks in Rotherhithe. Roshane Thomas, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025 By using the latest and greatest IT technology, a Kubernetes deployment running docker containers, Galaxy can scale comfortably to any customer’s particular needs. Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024 Photos of equipment including a flour bench brush, a dough docker, and a kougelhopf mold can be found in the early pages. Sylvie Bigar, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024 Run the docker build command, which will create our image per a project-specific Dockerfile And finally, push this new image to the container repository, where it can be later pulled down by ECS Whew! Jason Marlin & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2023 Action by the Finnish port workers means Tesla vehicles or components destined to Swedish markets are not loaded by dockers, the union said in a statement. Sanne Wass, Fortune Europe, 7 Dec. 2023 Dishes not sanitized after washing, food debris on dough docker. Kunle Falayi, The Arizona Republic, 21 Dec. 2022
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  • His father was a stevedore and his mother an autodidact who aspired to something better than the prefab house where her family lived.
    Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
  • Docks depended on a circulating pool of male maritime workers—crews of seamen and stokers who manned the tramp steamers, gangs of longshoremen, and stevedores who loaded and unloaded goods, as well as artisans and machinists who maintained and repaired the ships and trains.
    Michael Denning, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2015
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  • The drop off in activity means fewer jobs for longshoremen and truckers, and down the line, higher prices for consumers, the representatives said.
    Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2025
  • Holt Logistics employs about 500 workers at the Port of Philadelphia, where longshoremen unpack and load products like fruit from around the world — produce destined for supermarkets across the U.S.
    Tom Hanson, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025
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  • As cargo entering major U.S. West Coast ports starts to slow down amid a deceleration in Chinese imports, the union representing dockworkers across the ocean freight hubs has made its opinion clear on where is stands on President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 29 Apr. 2025
  • That is comparable to the pay for dockworkers on the West Coast, represented by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, whose wages will rise to nearly $61 in 2027.
    Peter Eavis, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025

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“Docker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/docker. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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