Definition of "stevedoring" []

• Present participle of stevedore. (verb)

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• "freight-handling, or "stevedoring," companies, as well as individual longshoremen, before licensing them to work on the docks."
• "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."
• "A company called Best Labor Service, Inc. with offices at 3030 Woodland Ave. … supplies longshoremen to the stevedoring companies."