submarine base

collocation in English

meaningsofsubmarineandbase

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submarine
noun[C]
uk
/ˌsʌb.məˈriːn/us
/ˌsʌb.məˈriːn/
a ship that can ...
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base
adjective
uk
/beɪs/us
/beɪs/
not showing any honour and having ...
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(Definition ofsubmarineandbasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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From this hotel they can look over asubmarinebase.
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It is a most important and a most vulnerable target, but it has never ceased to function as asubmarinebase.
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In the case of thesubmarinebase, 200 jobs are involved.
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At the same time, however, there has been intensive activity on thesubmarinebase.
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That is thesubmarinebase.
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We would deal with thesubmarinebase.
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The facilities for thesubmarinebasecontinued to expand over time.
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The largesubmarinebasebuilt at that time still stands but is not in use.
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The house was originally waterfront when it was built in 1890 as the first officer's quarters on thesubmarinebasenaval station.
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Thesubmarinebaseis not in a remote location.
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By the time this work ended in the late 1970s the nuclearsubmarinebasewas operational.
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Sailing into the many rivers and deltas in the area, they failed to locate any submarines or evidence of asubmarinebase.
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No residents were paid the going rate for the land that was used to build thesubmarinebase.
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Marcinko then heads to thesubmarinebasewith the purpose of destroying a submarine carrying similar nuclear warheads.
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Submarines were first based there in 1915, and in 1916 it was officially renamed asubmarinebase.
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It used to contain naval facilities, including asubmarinebase.
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Midway was also an importantsubmarinebase.
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