Meaning of dockyard in English
- Every dockyard in Italy was called into requisition.
- Nothing can be finer than the dockyards for building vessels, in which ten thousand men can work with ease.
- The ships were compelled to visit the imperial dockyard in the capital to undergo repairs and to receive provisions and pay.
- Two hours later they reached Plymouth, marched through the town to the dockyard, and went straight on board the transport.
- When the expedition reached England, every port and dockyard on the south coast was humming with preparations for a great naval struggle.
(Definition of dockyard from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of dockyard
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The seven-metre-high wall that enclosed the dockyards was surrounded by a deep and wide moat.
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After the closure of the dockyard, the island became a typical abandoned 'brownfield' site.
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The dockyards showed an impressive architecture, proclaiming the power of monarchy.
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The war expenses monopolized an increasing part of the budget, in detriment to work on the dockyards and the new city.
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Given the importance in this period of naval power and maritime trade, the demands of the royal dockyards were paramount.
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Both the trade unions and the many seamen in the dockyards tried to resist, but they were poorly armed and were eventually forced to surrender.
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Its economy depended on the services and the dockyard, neither of which provided much wealth.
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Inevitably, dockyards and factories are safer places.
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Department was chief of both the squadron and the dockyards.
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There is growing concern in the dockyards at the large and ever-increasing number of white-collar workers and their ever-increasing proportion to that of blue-collar workers.
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I share some of his views about the level of pay for the lowest paid workers in the dockyard.
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That amount must be set against a total of £92 million worth of work in the dockyards, so that it is a very small percentage.
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I desire to call attention to a very important subject, namely, that of the men on the establishment in our dockyards.
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That is in the case of dockyard ships—not contract ships.
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Various labour questions which arise in the dockyards in this connection are being most carefully watched, with a view to the prevention of undue overtime.
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