laborer vs dock worker

dock worker vs laborer

laborer and dock worker both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
laborer	Yes	No	No	No
dock worker	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dock worker is a hyponym of laborer; that is, dock worker is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than laborer:

laborer: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
dock worker: a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

Other hyponyms of laborer include agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer, bracero, cleaner, day laborer, day labourer, digger, dishwasher, drudge, galley slave, navvy, peon, gandy dancer, gravedigger, hewer, hand, hired hand, hired man, hod carrier, hodman, gipsy, gypsy, itinerant, faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman, miner, mineworker, mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, skinner, platelayer, tracklayer, porter, rail-splitter, splitter, sawyer, section hand, sprayer, stacker, steeplejack, dock-walloper, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore, fireman, stoker, woodcutter, wrecker, yardman.

laborer (noun)	dock worker (noun)
someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor	a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

Difference between laborer and dock worker

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