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FISHERY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does fishery mean?

• FISHERY (noun)
The noun FISHERY has 1 sense:

1. a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold

Familiarity information: FISHERY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FISHERY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fishery; piscary

Hypernyms ("fishery" is a kind of...):

work; workplace (a place where work is done)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fishery"):

pearl fishery (a fishery where they fish for pearl oysters)

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