ship-repairn.
The business or craft of restoring a ship to a sound condition. Usually attributive.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > repair of ships
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1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 198/2 An adjacent yard also provides a ship-repair service.
1976 Jrnl. (Newcastle) 26 Nov. The House of Lords refused to back down over 12 ship-repair firms in the old session of Parliament.
Derivatives
ˈship-repairer n. a firm engaged in the business of repairing ships.
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1976 Western Mail (Cardiff) 22 Nov. 5/2 The ship-repairers don't want to be nationalised.
ˈship-repairing n.
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1941 W. S. Churchill Secret Session Speeches (1946) 32 At least another 40,000 men must be drawn into ship-repairing.
1976 Eastern Evening Press (Norwich) 19 Nov. 1 The Government continued on a collision course..after winning a Commons vote..to retain ship-repairing yards.
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