factory ship
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈfæktəri ʃɪp/
- Specialized
:
buque factoría
- During 1988 and 1989, a cooperative venture between a company in Maine and the Soviet Union allowed processing of menhaden for reduction onboard a Soviet factory ship anchored off Maine.
- huge factory ship
- trawlers and factory ships
- Soviet factory ship
Examples
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Fish are processed and stored on a large factory ship moored near the coast.
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With the advent of long-distance trawlers and factory ships, other species, particularly walleye or Alaska pollock, Theragra chalcogramma, have taken over this market.
Academic text (1990) -
You may have read some of the stunning accounts of work aboard the factory ships that catch, process, and freeze fish.
Blog text (26) -
The Japanese generally believe that, due to faster conversion from live fish to frozen surimi, factory ship operations produce higher quality surimi.
Academic text (1994) -
With the advent of huge fish factory ships from third states and the growing concern of coastal states over the increasing depletion of fishery resources off their shores, movement began towards the declaration of exclusive fishing zones out to 200 nautical miles from the coast.
Academic text (2000) -
In August 2008, for example, agents with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced a fraud investigation of a factory ship in the catch share-regulated Bering Sea pollock fishery.
Academic text (2010) -
In New England, a recent solution to the enigma of an abundance of menhaden in coastal waters without shoreside processing facilities has been the advent of a near-shore factory ship operated by a Maine-U.S.S.R. cooperative venture.
Academic text (1991) -
The factory ship operates in the open ocean, processing fish directly after they are caught.
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Workers on the factory ship sort the catch and prepare it for freezing immediately.
Synonyms
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4.6
A ship that hunts whales and processes them at sea
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a ship equipped with facilities to process and store fish' is directly derivable from combining 'factory' (a place for producing/processing) with 'ship' (a vessel). This is a straightforward noun+noun compound following normal compositional patterns and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Factory ship comes from the simple idea of a factory on a ship; imagine a floating factory where fish are brought on board to be cut, frozen and stored while the ship stays at sea. That's why the name means 'a large ship that processes and stores fish or whales at sea'.