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shipholding

shipholding adjective: owning a ship or ships.

Adjective

shipholding (not comparable)

  1. owning a ship or ships

Origin of shipholding

From ship + holding.

Questions about shipholding

What does shipholding mean?
Shipholding means owning a ship or ships.
What part of speech is shipholding?
Shipholding is an adjective.

Words near shipholding in the dictionary

  1. shiphandler
  2. shiphandlers
  3. shiphandling
  4. shipholder
  5. shipholders
  6. shipholding
  7. Shipibo
  8. Shiping
  9. shipkeeper
  10. shipkeepers
  11. shipkeeping

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