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Definition of shipbuilding : Naval architecturel the art of constructing ships and other vessels.

Synonyms:

ship building

Usage examples:

• Its chief application is in the preservation of iron in shipbuilding. - "The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes", Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes.
• The Secretary of the Navy, although supporting the project, delayed action until he had weighed the importance of the batteries in relation to other war needs, for at this time the naval shipbuilding program on the Great Lakes was considered of prime importance. - "Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran", Howard I. Chapelle.
• And so it may well happen, as it did for example in the case of Salem, Massachusetts, that a change in the art of shipbuilding will reduce a whole city from a center where international influences converge to a genteel provincial town. - "Public Opinion", Walter Lippmann.