seaport town
collocation in Englishmeaningsofseaportandtown
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seaport
noun[C]
uk/ˈsiː.pɔːt/us/ˈsiː.pɔːrt/
(a city or town with) a port that can be used ...
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town
noun
uk/taʊn/us/taʊn/
a place where people live and work, containing many houses, shops, places of work, places of entertainment, etc., and usually larger than a village but smaller than ...
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(Definition ofseaportandtownfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Particular places, aseaporttown, or a pleasure resort, may show different percentages of working women as compared with other districts.
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I have come from a tinyseaporttownwhich had a target of £25,000.
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That is the first contribution towards the cost of maintenance of the boy at theseaporttown.
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I know a similar organisation in aseaporttownwhich is autonomous to that town.
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Take the case of aseaporttown.
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But take, for example, aseaporttown, where a partly-furnished room, let to a naval man's wife coming for her husband's leave, was let at £3 a week.
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I represent aseaporttown.
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There is not, and is not likely to be, any great demand for the conveyance of goods between these two seaport towns.
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Everyone connected with our seaport towns knows that them is room for a great improvement in this respect.
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It is not merely shipping, but also the dock labourers living in seaport towns and other occupations of every sort and kind.
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I would just ask him to consider that this regulation is not restricted to a few seaport towns or canteens of that kind.
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These are the things that men and women are asking themselves in the humble cottages of the great seaport towns in this country.
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This modification will be welcomed very heartily by all who, like myself, come from seaport towns where there is a large amount of casual labour.
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I am told that in the seaport towns the timber mills dealing with imported timber have practically closed down.
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Our largest industry in the seaport towns is the docks.
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The dockers read the shipping journals, as do most people in seaport towns.
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In this country the proportion is one out of three of the population living in seaport towns.
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The illustration that he chose of the seaport towns was a particularly bad illustration for this reason.
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In the dock trade, in our seaport towns, labour is not organised locally, but you can find work for all men by means of a central organisation.
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For this reason, cooperation between the adjacent seaport towns was almost impossible.
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