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The construction of ships
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shipbuilding
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shipbuilding \Ship"build`ing\, n. Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.
WordNet
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n. the construction of ships
Wikipedia
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Shipbuilding is a mini album recorded by Tasmin Archer. Archer decided to follow up her successful 1992 debut Great Expectations with an EP of four covers of songs written by Elvis Costello , which was released in January 1994 in the singer's homeland of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The construction of ships. 2 A construction of a ship.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN industry ▪ Battered by losses in the aerospace and shipbuilding industries in the early 1990s, the area has rebounded considerably. ▪ How much smaller is the Clydeside shipbuilding industry now, than it was in the period ...
Usage examples of shipbuilding.
Okay, he seemed knowledgeable about shipbuilding, but did he have to keep up the pretense of being a Viking?
With an arm still wrapped around her shoulders, he hugged her closer and kissed the top of her head, then walked her toward the shipbuilding area.
I never envisioned that the project would encompass so much more than just the shipbuilding and voyage.
Their Golden Sixty Five had been a successful design, they were pleased and proud to say, and their standard of shipbuilding was respected the world over.
So in addition to a reputation for fine shipbuilding and an impregnable canyon locale, Moulokin also enjoyed this additional important resource.
He was able to talk some backers into putting up the capital for a chain of motels in the South, parleyed the money from that into a shipbuilding yard, branched out into importing fruit from South America in his own ships, opened some processing and packaging plants, and he was on his way.
There developed a variety of crafts in the cities, like shipbuilding and tanning, and traditional production in the surrounding areas, especially of wine, olive oil, salt and fish, both fresh and salted.
Important results were also achieved in shipbuilding and the oil, pharmaceutical, chemical and metal industries.
The Croatian shipbuilding industry, at one time third in volume in the world, began to decline.
You will find, if you make enquiries, that not only are the Press excluded to-day from the shipbuilding yards in question, but the work-people are living almost in barracks.
Your army has never been so small or your shipbuilding programme more curtailed.
Any agreement for settling our differences and introducing a new spirit into the relations of the two nations would be bones without flesh if Germany began by fresh shipbuilding, and so forced us to do twice as much.
I had found, and leave the difficulties about shipbuilding and indeed all other matters to their judgment.
I pressed on him how important it was for public opinion and the peace of the world that Germany should not force us into a shipbuilding competition with her, a competition in which it was certain that we should have to spare no effort to preserve our margin of safety by greater increases.
They betrayed the varied concepts of shipbuilding of at least ten races.