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shipyard

noun as in dry dock

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Our chairman is over visiting the shipyards we’re all of our ships are being built this week.

From Time

It was apparent that Musk was not building a ship, he was building a shipyard.

That’s what the trade union Solidarity did, drawing its initial strength from protests by shipyard workers in Gdansk before growing into a national phenomenon with 10 million members within a year.

From Ozy

Namely, community representatives and environmental justice advocates wanted to adopt zoning in an area just North of Harbor Drive that could act as a buffer between the shipyard along the water, and the more residential area to the north and east.

Gómez grew up in Barrio Logan, an area plagued by industrial air pollution from the highways that roll through the neighborhood and the shipyards that flank it.

Farrell issued a ticket to an 18-year-old shipyard worker for speeding and an improper exhaust mechanism, according to the TP.

Now Sting gets his turn, with this musical that he based on his own experiences growing up near a shipyard.

His boss suggested he should, but Tam apparently held other views, went into a shipyard and was "badged and reserved."

It was a great pleasure for the young Consul to go his morning round in the shipyard with Mr. Robson.

Guinayangan also boasts a shipyard, which is nothing more than a rough shed, the implements being most primitive in construction.

Two-and-twenty years ago, Sandy McGregor worked as a day-laborer in a shipyard, at three and sixpence per day.

At the time the war broke out, there was hardly a shipyard in the confines of the Confederacy.

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On this page you'll find 3 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shipyard, such as: dockyard, and graving dock.

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