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SHIPBUILDER

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• SHIPBUILDER (noun)
The noun SHIPBUILDER has 3 senses:

1. a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels
2. a person who builds ships as a business
3. a business that builds and repairs ships

Familiarity information: SHIPBUILDER used as a noun is uncommon.

• SHIPBUILDER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

ship builder; shipbuilder; shipwright

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

wright (someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination))

Sense 2

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Meaning:

A person who builds ships as a business

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

ship builder; shipbuilder

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

builder; constructor (someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building))

Sense 3

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Meaning:

A business that builds and repairs ships

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

business; business concern; business organisation; business organization; concern (a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it)

Holonyms ("shipbuilder" is a member of...):

shipbuilding industry (an industry that builds ships)

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