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wharfage

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as in marina

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Recent Examples of wharfage Blue Harvest has charged captains and crew on its vessels for maintenance, electronics and wharfage fees, among other expenses. — Will Sennott, ProPublica, 22 July 2022 Stimpson said last year that cruising, before the pandemic halted the industry, attracted around $6 million in annual gross revenues from wharfage and parking alone. — al, 25 Feb. 2022

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Noun

Among them are a special events center, parking garage, transit station, marina expansion and a 300-room hotel.

— Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2026
Emergency personnel who responded to the scene administered medical aid to the man, who the sheriff's office said was a resident of the marina.

— Nick Lentz, CBS News, 13 July 2026

Definition of marina

Noun

The companies said the NSMV program helped transform the facility from a largely dormant shipyard employing only a few dozen workers into a site with more than 2,000 production workers.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
The site will include a shipyard and manufacturing facility capable of producing vessels up to 850 feet.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 17 July 2026

Definition of shipyard

Noun

Shaking from a quake could damage wharves, piers, buildings and roadway above the seawall.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
By the time Noe and his sons were back home and had moored the boat to their wharf on the narrow pass that separated Cheniere Disparue from the mainland, the last low clouds of the front hung over the Gulf.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026

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