ocean-going ship

collocation in English

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ocean-going
adjective
uk
/ˈəʊ.ʃənˌɡəʊ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈoʊ.ʃənˌɡoʊ.ɪŋ/
(of a ship, boat, etc.) designed for travelling across large areas ...
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ship
noun[C]
uk
/ʃɪp/us
/ʃɪp/
a large boat for travelling on water, especially across ...
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(Definition ofocean-goingandshipfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The practical choice lies between giving up or carrying out a full-scale trial of a prototype nuclear reactor in anocean-goingship.
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The only exception to that was in the case of anocean-goingshipaway from this country for a long time.
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In 1833, aged 25, he launched a small 60 tonocean-goingshipof his design.
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This has caused reconsideration of theocean-goingshipdesign.
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Can he use his influence to give us more ocean-going ships or, at any rate, to abolish the system of bulk purchase?
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In the case of oil the position is exactly the same as with ocean-going ships.
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Of course, the ocean-going ships of considerable tonnage carry a doctor, but not so the coastal craft.
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It would then become necessary to discharge our ocean-going ships into smaller ones for transit to our smaller ports.
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In the 1960s, 67 new ocean-going ships were commissioned.
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Therefore, we are bound to draw a distinction somewhere between those ships preponderantly in use in coastal, or in effect internal, transport, and ocean-going ships.
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The present jetty can take only one ship at a time, and there is an immediate need for much better facilities for ocean-going ships.
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These wharves cannot for the most part be served by ocean-going ships.
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The result has been that competition for other types of ocean-going ships to meet the insatiable appetites of the huge yards has been intensified to a frightening degree.
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The trend towards still bigger ocean-going ships in the deep-sea trades, to which so many were blind five and even two years ago, is now common talk.
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Being on a northern river, its port froze during the winter, and it could not take the largest ocean-going ships.
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Ocean-going ships regularly dock along the city's waterfront just south of downtown.
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A natural sandbank kept out the large ocean-going ships, and left the harbour accessible only to small craft.
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Carracks were ocean-going ships: large enough to be stable in heavy seas, and roomy enough to carry provisions for long voyages.
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The last 277 km of the lower river is navigable for ocean-going ships.
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It is surrounded on three other sides by the ocean, and the people have never been able to develop ocean-going ships.
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