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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shipbuilder
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Decades later, the shipbuilder was still enjoying his island idyll.
▪ I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder.
▪ In a constituency such as mine there are many highly skilled men, such as shipbuilders and welders, out of work.
▪ John Knollys was one of the finest shipbuilders in that part of Cornwall.
▪ John Stafford quit as chief executive of Cammell Laird after the crisis-hit shipbuilder plunged to a first-half loss.
▪ To assist this plan, the Navy is asking shipbuilders to construct low-maintenance ships that are heavily automated.
▪ Under the arsenal ship program, however, weapons makers and shipbuilders were working together.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shipbuilder

Shipbuilder \Ship"build`er\, n. A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.

Wiktionary
shipbuilder

n. 1 A person who builds vessels like ships and boats. 2 A firm specialized in building ships.

WordNet
shipbuilder

  1. n. a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels [syn: shipwright, ship builder]

  2. a person who builds ships as a business [syn: ship builder]

  3. a business that builds and repairs ships

Usage examples of "shipbuilder".

There had been a powerful Jarl Eric Tryggvason in the Vestfold region of Norway in 997, and one of his sons had been a shipbuilder and noted warrior.

Jared or Mike had found this skilled shipbuilder for her, possibly from some primitive region where there were no televisions or malls.

A cloud obscured the moon and the burly shipbuilder welcomed the darkness.

As a shipbuilder and a craftsman, he had long been proud of the enormous strength he could bring to bear, lifting great weights of wood or stone.

But now - Great be the Glory of Belial - the shipbuilder was within her reach once more.

I am a shipbuilder, but I am also an Elder of the Law of One and I preach in the Temple.

Shannow thought of Nu, and hoped the shipbuilder had returned home safely.

Nemo was the free-spirited son of a widowed shipbuilder, and Jules Verne was the oldest child of an established but dull country lawyer.

Nemo, since his father had been a shipbuilder and the boy could hope for nothing better in his life.

Tomorrow we can have a talk with your shipbuilder and see if he backs you up.

You tell me you are the best shipbuilder alive and this craft you wish to sell me is the best airship ever built.

Trying to make a poor shipbuilder think he might have something to offer a clutch of madmen and madder women!

Everything had a makeshift, knockdown look to it, and when Walker asked Spanner Frew how long the settlement had been there, the shipbuilder advised him that they moved at least every other year to protect themselves.

Walker said little, letting the garrulous shipbuilder carry the conversation, marking the looks that passed between the three, and taking mental notes on the way they interacted with one another.

The shipbuilder mostly yelled at him, driving him from pillar to post with his sharp tongue and acid criticism, forcing him to think harder and act faster than normal.