SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shipbuilding industry mean? 

• SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY (noun)
  The noun SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY has 1 sense:

1. an industry that builds ships

  Familiarity information: SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An industry that builds ships

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("shipbuilding industry" is a kind of...):

industry (the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise)

Meronyms (members of "shipbuilding industry"):

shipbuilder (a business that builds and repairs ships)