jumboizev.
/ˈdʒʌmbəʊʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈdʒəmboʊˌaɪz/ transitive. To enlarge a ship, esp. a tanker, by inserting a new middle section between the bow and stern.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > modify
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jumboize1956
1956 N.Y. Times 23 Dec. S11/7 (heading) Concern to build ten and ‘jumboize’ nine.
1957 Sun (Baltimore) 4 Apr. 16 We're ‘jumboizing’ present tankers.
1961 Economist 28 Jan. 366/1 The Schlieker yard had ‘jumboized’ on the spot the T2 tanker Kaposia.
Derivatives
ˈjumboized adj.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > [adjective] > enlarged by new middle section
jumboized1957
1957 Sun (Baltimore) 4 Apr. 16 First completed ‘jumboized’ oil tanker.
1973 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 10 Feb. 25/2 Ferries on this route currently do not have the double kitchens of the jumboized ships on the Shwartz Bay–Tsawassen service.
ˈjumboizer n.
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1957 New Yorker 14 Sept. 33/3 In language controls, the trend is toward bastardization, if you ask us, and we wish the National Association of Manufacturers would call in all the jumboizers and miniaturizationists and bang their heads together.
ˈjumboizing n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > modification of vessel
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jumboizing1956
1956 N.Y. Times 23 Dec. S11/7 ‘Jumboizing’ consists of building an entire new center section for a tanker. The existing vessel is then cut off at the bow and stern which are later joined to the new section.
1961 Economist 28 Jan. 366/1 Conversions and jumboizing within 56 days.
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