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词汇 merchant-ship
释义 merchant ship
noun [ C ]
uk /ˈmɜː.tʃənt ˌʃɪp/ us /ˈmɝː.tʃənt ˌʃɪp/
a ship that is used for trade rather than for passengers or military purposes:
She is the wealthy owner of a small fleet of merchant ships.
His desire to travel was so strong that he ran off to be a cabin boy on a merchant ship.
We spotted a huge American merchant ship unloading commercial supplies.
They had just searched a merchant ship suspected of smuggling when their boats were surrounded by a number of foreign vessels.
Workers have built a replica of a merchant ship that left London for Jamestown in 1606.
Both of us served together on a merchant ship for ten years.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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ship
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trawler
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merchant

merchant ship | Business English


merchant ship
noun[ C ]
ukus
TRANSPORT
a ship used for trading rather than for military purposes:
The submarine struck a Norwegian merchant ship in the western Mediterranean Sea.

merchant shipping


noun[ U ]

Examples of merchant ship


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They were adapted from a merchantship design and were suitable for building at merchant yards.
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International law requires that every merchantship be registered in a country, called its flag state.
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Her owners converted to an armed merchantship.
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It relates the adventures of the captain of a merchantship in ports all over the world.
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The flying boat would land on the open sea, near a converted merchantship.
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She then daringly came within 700 yd of an escort while bringing her stern tubes to bear on another merchantship.
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The unexpected sinkings caused a temporary halt to merchantship sailings.
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Evasive maneuvering and a screen of antiaircraft fire, however, kept the five two-engined bombers' score to one burned merchantship.
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On a merchantship, an oiler is an unlicensed member of the engineering department.
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The merchantship had a wide variety of tableware and it is speculated it traded all over the region.
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