labourer vs dock worker

dock worker vs labourer

labourer and dock worker both are nouns.

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

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

labourer: 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 labourer 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.

labourer (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 labourer and dock worker

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