shipyard
IPA: ʃˈɪpjɑrd
noun
- A place where ships are built and repaired.
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Examples of "shipyard" in Sentences
- Just past the shipyard is the now-abandoned Navy maximum security prison.
- At the northern end of the shipyard was the massive dock where Lincoln and the other Nimitz class carriers were built.
- Above the front door of Karnágio - Greek for "shipyard" - hangs a painting of a weathered sailor, chief witness to Dimitris 'painting past.
- Scrapping the second carrier and bringing forward the construction of frigates would still leave a gap in shipyard work, ministers have been told.
- The shipyard was a society in which manhood was based on a publicly useful skill and on contributing to a community in which men supported and guided each other.
- Shipbuilders are counting on the fact that a shipyard is a shipyard -- even if they build rigs in it -- and that lower-cost delivery could win them some business.
- NEWPORT NEWS - Control of the region's largest labor union and its roughly 6,800 members is at stake this week in an election that pits a two-term shipyard incumbent against the man he replaced six years ago.
- The order book for the shipyard, which is owned by a joint venture led by the construction firms and two junior partners, includes more than 20 tankers, drilling rigs and an offshore platform—all for Petrobras, at a cost to the oil company of more than $8 billion.
- But a sale of the Asian business, while far from certain, would mean the company's focus will shift again to the Dubai-based shipyard, which is considered much more commercially viable and therefore could gain easier access to funding for now and once the debt restructuring talks are completed.
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