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ship-building

ship-building is the alternative form of shipbuilding.

Meaning of shipbuilding

Noun

shipbuilding (plural shipbuildings)

  1. (uncountable) The construction of ships.
    • Mystic’s maritime history dates to its days as a shipbuilding center, a time well preserved at the Mystic Seaport Museum, the world’s leading and largest of its kind, home to the famed 1800s whaleship, Charles W. Morgan.2017 April 2, Tara Donaldson, “5 quiet U.S. coastal towns that offer a seaside escape”, in CNN
  2. A construction of a ship.

Forms of ship-building

pluralship-buildings

Questions about ship-building

What is ship-building the alternative form of?
Ship-building is the alternative form of shipbuilding.

Words near ship-building in the dictionary

  1. ship's wheels
  2. ship, shipmate, self
  3. ship-breaker
  4. ship-builder
  5. ship-builders
  6. ship-building
  7. ship-buildings
  8. ship-fever
  9. ship-jumper
  10. ship-jumpers
  11. ship-man

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ship-building (page history and authors); shipbuilding (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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