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LCU

LCU is the initialism of landing craft.

Meaning of landing craft

Noun

landing craft (plural landing crafts or landing craft)

  1. A type of flat-bottomed boat used to transport infantry and vehicles onto a shore during an assault from the sea.
    • Turpentine timber was obtained from the forests outside Maryborough and Townsville, and shipped by rail and landing craft to Hayman Island.1954 March, “The Hayman Island Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 207
    Synonyms:
    LC

Synonyms of LCU

  • utility landing craft
  • landing craft, utility
  • landing craft utility

Forms of LCU

pluralLCUs

Origin of LCU

Abbreviation.

Questions about LCU

What is LCU the initialism of?
LCU is the initialism of landing craft.

Words near LCU in the dictionary

  1. LCSW
  2. LCT
  3. LCTL
  4. LCTLs
  5. LCTs
  6. LCU
  7. LCV
  8. LCWFC
  9. LCWRA
  10. LCX
  11. LCZ

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Adapted from Wiktionary: LCU (page history and authors); landing craft (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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