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shipbreakers

shipbreakers is the plural of shipbreaker.

Meaning of shipbreaker

Noun

shipbreaker (plural shipbreakers)

  1. One who works in shipbreaking.
    • […] the L.M.S.R. has sold Queen Empress, Duchess of Rothesay, and Eagle III to a Dutch firm of shipbreakers.1947 January and February, “Notes and News: Steamer Services on the Clyde”, in Railway Magazine, page 50

Questions about shipbreakers

What is shipbreakers the plural of?
Shipbreakers is the plural of shipbreaker.

Words near shipbreakers in the dictionary

  1. shipbound
  2. Shipbourne
  3. shipboy
  4. shipboys
  5. shipbreaker
  6. shipbreakers
  7. shipbreaking
  8. shipbroken
  9. shipbroker
  10. shipbrokers
  11. shipbroking

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