stevedore

April 15付け The Japan Times Onlineのメルマガサービスの記事を引用します。
U.S. vet pries lid off Agent Orange denials Thousands of barrels of Agent Orange were stored at U.S. bases in Okinawa in the 1960s and local stevedores were exposed to the highly toxic herbicide, according to one of only three American veterans who have won medical benefits because they handled the shipments.
"stevedore" は前にもどこかで見た単語ですが忘れています。文の最後に "they handled the shipments" とあるので、港湾労働者ではないかと推測できますが、辞書で確認します。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: one who works at or is responsible for loading and unloading ships in port: on the wharves, stevedores were unloading cargo from the far corners of the world
・Vocabulary.com: a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port: At 9.30 the head stevedore reports the cargo all trimmed down.
・Macmillan Dictionary: someone whose job is to move goods on and off ships. The British word is docker.
イギリス英語の "docker" なら覚える苦労はありませんが、"stevedore" は辞書の例文、 "Stevedores were unloading cargo from the far corners of the world.".を丸ごと覚えないとまた忘れそうです。