Definition of "shipbuilding" [ship•build•ing]

• The art or business of designing and constructing ships. (noun)

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• "As articulated in their respective long-term shipbuilding plans, the Navy and the Coast Guard intend to purchase a total of 83 small combatants."
• "Once a center for salt shipping, Lymington became known as a shipbuilding and trading port during the Middle Ages."
• "For one illustration, we are using today vastly more wood in shipbuilding than in the days when all the ships of all the world were made of wood; and that applies all down through the line."