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- verb Present participle of
stevedore .
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freight-handling, or "stevedoring," companies, as well as individual longshoremen, before licensing them to work on the docks.
NYT > Home Page By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA 2010
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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 Dinny McMahon 2011
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A company called Best Labor Service, Inc. with offices at 3030 Woodland Ave. … supplies longshoremen to the stevedoring companies.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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A company called Best Labor Service, Inc. with offices at 3030 Woodland Ave. … supplies longshoremen to the stevedoring companies.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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Transit camp near Takao Harbor, men did stevedoring work.
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A company called Best Labor Service, Inc. with offices at 3030 Woodland Ave. … supplies longshoremen to the stevedoring companies.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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A company called Best Labor Service, Inc. with offices at 3030 Woodland Ave. … supplies longshoremen to the stevedoring companies.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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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.
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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.
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Joe Teitelbaum, owner of a Miami stevedoring company, played ball with organized crime.
The Mob and Me John Partington 2010
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