shipbuilding
IPA: ʃˈɪpbɪɫdɪŋ
noun
- (uncountable, nautical) The construction of ships.
- A construction of a ship.
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Examples of "shipbuilding" in Sentences
- Egyptians used it in shipbuilding as well.
- But the predominant industry was shipbuilding.
- Here the isolated shipbuilding, the navigation.
- This correlates with the decline of the shipbuilding industry.
- The development of shipbuilding facilitated the spread of bronze.
- Once a center for salt shipping, Lymington became known as a shipbuilding and trading port during the Middle Ages.
- Chinese shipbuilders beat Korea for the first time in Chinese shipbuilding history in terms of volume of shipbuilding orders placed in 2009.
- As articulated in their respective long-term shipbuilding plans, the Navy and the Coast Guard intend to purchase a total of 83 small combatants.
- I have seen illustrations in shipbuilding, where, after making quite a sweep, discharging of men that worked on a vessel, we drove more rivets with the smaller force than we did before.
- Tourism, banking and property are big money earners, having overtaken the traditional trades of fishing, turtle hunting and shipbuilding and made the islands financially self sufficient.
- For one illustration, we are using today vastly more wood in shipbuilding than in the days when all the ships of all the world were made of wood; and that applies all down through the line.
- Roughead's order reminds its readers that Midway put America back on the offensive only six months after the disastrous surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, at a time when the IJN outnumbered the USN due to a gap in longterm shipbuilding programs combined with asymmetric battle losses; there is also today real concern about the adequacy of the current USN longterm shipbuilding program.