Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Question of the Day #1162

TEAMSTERS STAND WITH THE INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN’S ASSOCIATION
From the headline of this article at Teamster.org.

  上記の文で、teamstersとlongshoremenの意味は?
In the sentence above, what does "teamsters" and “longshoremen” mean?

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解答

意味:
英辞郎によるとteamsterの意味は、
  1. 〈米〉〔家畜に引かせた荷車の〕御者◆可算◆アメリカで19世紀から20世紀初頭にかけて、何頭もの雄牛、馬、ラバなどに引かせて荷物を運んだ人。
  2. 〈米〉トラック運転手
  3. 〈米〉全米トラック運転手組合員
ですが、問題の見出しの場合の意味は、3番の組織名「全米トラック運転手組合」(International Brotherhood of Teamsters)の略になります。

longshoremenはもちろんlongshoremanの複数形で、
〈米〉港湾労働者◆可算
の意味ですが、問題の見出しの場合はInternational Longshoremen’s Association (ILA, 国際港湾労働者協会)の一部になります。  

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster, teamster means:
one who drives a team or motortruck especially as an occupation
However, in this case, the word is an abbreviation for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

  Longshoreman means
a person who loads and unloads ships at a seaport
 

Examples

  1. The teamsters have yet to reach an agreement with the university system. — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  2. The raucous crowd included nurses, teachers, teamsters, and retail workers. — Sal Gentile, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2023
  3. Around the same time, his childhood friend and fellow longshoreman, Windell B. La Cour, died from the virus. — New York Times, 12 Dec. 2020
  4. Both his grandfather and father worked as longshoremen at Port of Erie in New York. — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 27 Apr. 2024
  5. My one white student was a man in his early 60s, William*, a former longshoreman. — Robyn McGee, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2020
   

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