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porter

[pawr-ter, pohr-] / ˈpɔr tər, ˈpoʊr- /


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The commute to his Manhattan porter job is convenient, too.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

As a $5.28-an-hour porter he had to scrap 15,000 square feet of trash every 60 minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Scrawled in chalk in the list of draft beers was the Edmund Fitzgerald porter, a longtime brew from the Great Lakes Brewing Co.

From Slate • Nov. 10, 2025

One of the regulars at the hub is 64-year-old Les Mifflin, a former kitchen porter who ended up homeless after the breakdown of a relationship.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025

My great-uncle Terry, Robbie’s husband, had abandoned a career as a plumber for the same reason, instead becoming a Pullman porter.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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