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  • noun Plural form of shipyard.

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Examples

  • They idea that we should let all of our mills die and mothball a few near naval shipyards is CRAZY.

    Economic Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The Halifax shipyards is at present constructing its third multi-million dollar oil drilling rig and has an order for a fourth.

    A Future for the Maritimes 1972

  • These mortar-boats, which were destined to astound not only the Americans but the whole world, had been constructed in Japanese shipyards, to which no stranger had ever been admitted.

    Banzai! by Parabellum Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff 1903

  • Built in German shipyards for the Israel Navy, the submarine is capable of carrying American-supplied Harpoon cruise missiles equipped with nuclear warheads.

    GlobalResearch.ca 2010

  • Built in German shipyards for the Israel Navy, the submarine is capable of carrying American-supplied Harpoon cruise missiles equipped with nuclear warheads.

    Signs of the Times 2010

  • Especially when you consider that the shipyards are apparently opening again.

    Matthew Yglesias » 400 Families Earned an Average of $345 Million Each in 2007 2010

  • Danaos's recent new-build program was worth some $3.5 billion, and Mr. Coustas estimates that the entire Greek maritime sector's new-build projects were worth close to $100 billion in the last decade: "Imagine if a small fraction of that had been ordered in Greek shipyards."

    Getting Rich in Greece Anne Jolis 2011

  • Danaos's recent new-build program was worth some $3.5 billion, and Mr. Coustas estimates that the entire Greek maritime sector's new-build projects were worth close to $100 billion in the last decade: "Imagine if a small fraction of that had been ordered in Greek shipyards."

    Greece: Where Profit Is Taboo Anne Jolis 2011

  • 'Paris,' gross tons 10,794.86; 'Evelyn,' gross tons 1,963.44, the latter three built in English shipyards and denationalized. "

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 Various

  • Gladstone's reference to the Southern navy was doubly indelicate because whatever navy the South had was being built in English shipyards.

    America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002

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