shipyard
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈʃɪpˌjɑrd/
:
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- After graduating, she got a job at the local shipyard where they build new vessels.
- shipyard workers
- slipways in shipyards
- shipyards produce ships
And he starts working in the, the Kaiser shipyard in, in Richmond.
- And he starts working in the, the Kaiser shipyard in, in Richmond.
- And he was the leader of the, the, the, the strike in the Gdansk shipyard.
- So last January, I spent a couple of weeks in Trieste in northern Italy and it was at the Finn Cantcherry shipyard.
- So when when I say it's segregated, I mean it like literally, physically is its own distinct area out by the old shipyards.
- This will be a national effort and a major part of this rebuilding will be the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
- Even more common seems to be these female vendors of naval supplies for shipyards.
- And he gets Isaac Asimov and else Greg to camp to work for the Naval shipyard.
- You know, the yard is cutting all the steel outside of the shipyard and they are providing all these steel cutted plates by the gate.
- So I took a job as an engineer in a shipyard at the place where they skim oil slicks.
Examples
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Todd-Houston Shipbuilding in Texas produced 208 total and averaged more than all five shipyards each year.
Academic text (2009) -
The Brunswick Mariner, the shipyard's newspaper, proudly proclaimed that "the farms of Georgia are building these ships."
Academic text (2009) -
Soon, the whole shipyard had agreed to come in on Christmas Day and work for free.
Academic text (2009) -
He worked in the shipyard.
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So I took a job as an engineer in a shipyard at the place where they skim oil slicks.
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Most of these patients were exposed to asbestos in the shipyards around Boston where they had worked.
Academic text (2017) -
A view of the Titanic's hull at the shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, shortly before the vessel was launched.
Academic text (2012) -
Our next guest, father worked as a pipe fitter in a San Francisco shipyard bending steel.
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In November 1944, the USMC asked all shipyards to produce six vessels.
Academic text (2009) -
The shipyard owners of Blohm & Voss gather for a ceremony celebrating the company's new 295-foot vessel.
Synonyms
2
4.4
A place by the water where people build and fix ships
1
4.4
A place where the navy builds and repairs military ships
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4.2
A place where the military builds and fixes ships
Idioms
- Informal
Very strong and solid, like a person with big muscles or a very hard box
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Etymology
Shipyard comes from Old English parts ship ('a boat') and yard ('an enclosed place'), so it originally meant a 'yard for ships'. That's why a shipyard is a place where ships are built or repaired.