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container ship
or con·tain·er·ship
[ kuhn-tey-ner ship ]
noun
, Transportation.
- a large ship that transports its cargo in truck-size containers that can be transferred from ship to train to truck without unloading and reloading the contents:
Container ships may be a common sight today, but the arrival of the first American ones in European ports made headlines in the shipping journals of the time.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of container ship1
First recorded in 1955–60
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Example Sentences
Almost everything you own and consume came to you via a container ship, but we know almost nothing about the industry.
From The Daily Beast
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