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  • verb Present participle of stevedore.

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Examples

  • freight-handling, or "stevedoring," companies, as well as individual longshoremen, before licensing them to work on the docks.

    NYT > Home Page

  • Some trace the backlash against sovereign-wealth funds and state-owned companies to Dubai Ports World's 2007 bid to acquire terminal operations and stevedoring services at several major U.S. ports.

    Wealth Funds Fight for Reputation

  • A company called Best Labor Service, Inc. with offices at 3030 Woodland Ave. … supplies longshoremen to the stevedoring companies.

    Kill the Irishman

  • A company called Best Labor Service, Inc. with offices at 3030 Woodland Ave. … supplies longshoremen to the stevedoring companies.

    Kill the Irishman

  • Transit camp near Takao Harbor, men did stevedoring work.

    The Story of the Taiwan POW's

  • A company called Best Labor Service, Inc. with offices at 3030 Woodland Ave. … supplies longshoremen to the stevedoring companies.

    Kill the Irishman

  • A company called Best Labor Service, Inc. with offices at 3030 Woodland Ave. … supplies longshoremen to the stevedoring companies.

    Kill the Irishman

  • This includes A$760 million at its container ports business, A$150 million at its general stevedoring division and A$50 million at its automotive business.

    Asciano Cuts $1 Billion From Asset Values

  • The writedown, primarily of its Patrick stevedoring business which operates at Australia's four major container ports, was expected since the company warned about it in May.

    Asciano Posts $862.3 Million Loss

  • Joe Teitelbaum, owner of a Miami stevedoring company, played ball with organized crime.

    The Mob and Me

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