variants or less commonly containership
: a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo

Examples of container ship in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Agents boarded another container ship managed by Synergy while it was docked in Baltimore on Saturday. Lea Skene and Brian Witte, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024 The Port of Baltimore, which was briefly shut by the collapse of the Key Bridge when it was hit by a container ship earlier this year, handles the nation’s largest volume of auto imports. Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 26 Sep. 2024 More than a decade before the Dali container ship toppled Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, a Seattle longshoreman named Roger Murray climbed aboard another vessel managed by the same Singaporean company. USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024 Without sufficient protective barriers surrounding the piers, other bridge components couldn’t compensate for the missing support when the large container ship, called the Dali, crashed into one of the piers, The New York Times reported in March. Devon Milley, Idaho Statesman, 18 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for container ship 

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Word History

First Known Use

1966, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of container ship was in 1966

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“Container ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/container%20ship. Accessed 16 Oct. 2024.

Kids Definition

containership

noun
con·​tain·​er·​ship kən-ˈtā-nər-ˌship How to pronounce containership (audio)
: a ship designed or equipped to carry very large containers of cargo
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