loggers

noun

plural of logger
as in lumbermen
a person whose job is to cut down trees the loggers were obliged to plant as many trees as they cut down

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Recent Examples of loggers The lumberjacks had used their trucks to block access to the Quebec border in protest of Canadian loggers who were stealing their jobs by working for less. — ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026 In 2011, loggers started illegally cutting rosewood trees in the mature forests of eastern Panama where Wounaan people live. — Chenier Carpio Opua, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026 So somebody with my background who’s actually worked through these problems and brought people together — like very divergent interest groups together, like the tribes, like environmental groups and loggers. — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 29 July 2026 Gómez González had been known as a vociferous antagonist of loggers. — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026 In 1998, Jackson helped lead a weeklong blockade along the Quebec border in an effort to protest the hiring of Canadian loggers who were coming into Maine and driving down pay rates. — Kimberlee Kruesi, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026 The loggers left in 1955, and the Ranch soon welcomed guests again (and of course—became a guiding force in western hospitality, favored by those seeking a true Montana experience). — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 June 2026 Ostensibly, the 1996 journey was meant to protect the Korubo from further outside contact by invaders (loggers, fishermen, settlers) intent on taking their resources. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 June 2026 Best Burn Firewood sources all of its hardwood directly from Wisconsin loggers through DNR select cuts, commercial land clearing operations, and lumber mill surplus, keeping the full supply chain inside the state. — Wyles Daniel, jsonline.com, 3 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loggers
  1. lumbermen
  2. lumberjacks
Noun
  • The history of gubernatorial candidates and winners in Wisconsin is replete with mayors, merchants, lawyers, lumbermen, publishers, educators, industrialists, secretaries of state, attorneys general and lieutenant governors.
    — Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Where once these trees stood in the island of Negros, sugarcane now dominates, all benefiting the hacenderos who welcomed the American lumbermen to clear the forests for later agricultural conversion.
    — JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 19 Nov. 2025
Definition of lumbermen
Noun
  • The lumberjacks had used their trucks to block access to the Quebec border in protest of Canadian loggers who were stealing their jobs by working for less.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The celebrated musicians, the eclectic writers, the artist troupes, the lumberjacks, the magicians.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2026
Definition of lumberjacks

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