What's the difference between longshoreman and longshoremen?
Longshoreman
Definition:
(n.) One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now he's returning to the stage with another flawed, difficult character: Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone, the tragic hero of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge , whose pride and unutterable obsession with his niece lead him towards the betrayal of his family and his community.
(2) Duncan became a longshoreman and able-bodied seaman.
(3) A View from the Bridge has its own challenges : originally written by Miller as a short story, its features as its protagonist Eddie Carbone, an Italian-American longshoreman from the Brooklyn slum of Red Hook ("a sinister waterfront world of gangster-ridden unions, assassinations, beatings, bodies thrown into the lovely bay at night", Miller wrote in his autobiography).
(4) Budd Schulberg, who has died aged 95, wrote the screenplay for the 1954 film On the Waterfront, and gave Marlon Brando , playing the longshoreman Terry Malloy, one of the classic lines in movie history: "I coulda been a contender.
Longshoremen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Longshoreman
Example Sentences:
(1) Leonard Riley, a 62-year-old longshoremen, knew Scott from church and spoke to Scott’s parents after the shooting.
(2) To appraise the role of physical activity in reducing coronary mortality among longshoremen, 6351 men, 35 to 74 years old upon entry, were followed for 22 years or to death or to the age of 75.
(3) The cohort included active and retired workers (longshoremen), who had been employed between 1960 and 1981.
(4) The risk of dying of lung cancer in related occupations (seamen and longshoremen) was also increased.
(5) In a 22-year followup of 3686 San Francisco longshoremen, the roles of physical activity, cigarette smoking habit, and systolic blood pressure level were evaluated independently in relation to risk of death from a broad range of diseases.
(6) Smoking-adjusted excess risks (p less than 0.01) were found in assemblers and machine erectors, drivers, miners, packers and longshoremen as well as in sheetmetal workers.
(7) Major studio heads were not interested in a story about labour trouble in Hoboken ("Who gives a shit about longshoremen?"
(8) These longshoremen burned 1,876 kcals on the job, equivalent to a 30-km run.
(9) Schulberg's hatred for labour racketeering, the source of his deep empathy for the longshoremen in On the Waterfront, led in 1960 to an invitation from Robert Kennedy to write a script based on Kennedy's The Enemy Within, an account of his legal war against Jimmy Hoffa and racketeering in the Teamsters union.
(10) In U.S. Industries v. Director, the Supreme Court held that the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act must be strictly construed to avoid transforming the compensation system into a form of social insurance.
(11) He was a man who knew Hollywood from the inside, as he came to know the lives of longshoremen and boxers, and wrote with a hard energy and a dogged loyalty to an individual's search for the truth.
(12) The New York mob had long dominated the longshoremen's union on the Hoboken waterfront, and Schulberg was attracted by the brave struggle against a corrupt union hierarchy.
(13) In a 22-year followup of 3686 San Francisco longshoremen, a cohort analysis assessed job activity and six personal characteristics in relation to 395 fatal heart attacks.
(14) The frequency of sciatic pain, lumbago, and nonspecific low-back pain (LBP) and factors related to these symptoms were determined among men occupied in machine operating (541 longshoremen and 311 earthmover operators), dynamic physical work (696 carpenters), and sedentary work (674 municipal office workers).
(15) "Food for Peace is a point of pride for the 44,000 American farmers, shippers, processors, longshoremen, and merchant mariners whose jobs depend upon the programme … American mariners on commercial US-flag vessels delivered more than 90% of defence cargo to military posts in Iraq and Afghanistan."
(16) A group of 3975 San Francisco longshoremen in cohorts classified annually by work activity (WA) was followed for fatal heart attack (FHA) over a 22-year period.
(17) If this holds true for the second 10-year period of this study, then marathon runners will have joined the longshoremen by earning life-long protection against ASCVD.