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Noun
And, in a shipboard environment, the questions are rarely easy.—Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025 Read more United States Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' Clears House in Narrow Vote
As the successor to the Nimitz class, the Gerald R. Ford-class features design improvements, including the ability to launch more aircraft and generate more electrical power for shipboard systems.—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
Adjective
And then there’s the efficiency with which the shipboard lifestyle promotes a lively assortment of respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses.—Curbed, 3 Mar. 2022 Interested in inverting the power dynamics between the superrich and those underpaid to serve them, Ostlund found de Leon’s transformation from shipboard housekeeping staffer to authoritative captain ashore to be searingly convincing.—Carlos Aguilar, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2022 See All Example Sentences for shipboard
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