ship-breaker

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ship-breaker - a contractor who buys old ships and breaks them up for scrap

contractor - someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things

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contractor ship shipbreaker			On Quilp's Wharf, Daniel Quilp was a ship-breaker, yet to judge from these appearances he must either have been a ship-breaker on a very small scale, or have broken his ships up very small indeed. The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context It matters not what stranded ships repairing in dry docks I lost myself among, what old hulls of ships in course of being knocked to pieces, what ooze and slime and other dregs of tide, what yards of ship-builders and ship-breakers, what rusty anchors blindly biting into the ground though for years off duty, what mountainous country of accumulated casks and timber, how many rope-walks that were not the Old Green Copper. Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context			Ship in ballast ship influence Ship joiner Ship letter ship money ship of the line ship off ship out Ship pendulum Ship railway ship route ship's articles ship's bell ship's biscuit ship's boat ship's boy ship's chandler Ship's clock ship's company Ship's corporal Ship's days ship's galley Ship's husband ship's officer ship's papers ship-breaker ship-broker ship-rigged ship-to-shore ship-to-shore movement ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system ship’s ship’s papers shipboard shipboard duty shipboard soldier shipboard system shipborne shipbreaker shipbuilder shipbuilding shipbuilding industry Shipful Shipholder Shipka Pass shiplap Shipless Shiplet shipload shipman Shipman's card			Ship's Self-Contained Navigation System Ship's Service Ship's Service Diesel Generator Ship's Service Gas Turbine Generator Ship's Serviceman First Class Ship's Serviceman Second Class Ship's Serviceman Third Class Ship's Subsystem Integration List Ship's Support Requirement Code Ship's System Staging Diagram Ship's Training and Alignment Verification Ship's Weapon Coordinator Ship, Nautical Marine Engineers Ship, Principal Measurements of a Ship, Submersible, Ballistic Ship, Submersible, Ballistic, Nuclear Ship, Submersible, Guided Missile, Nuclear Ship, Submersible, Nuclear Ship-Air-Surface-Submarine Tactical Information Exchange System Ship-Aircraft Airwake Analysis for Enhanced Dynamic Interface ship-and-galley tile Ship-Based Long-Range Missile System Ship-based System Integration Test Ship-Board Laser Acquisition System ship-breaker ship-breakers ship-broker Ship-building Ship-building SHIP-CM SHIP-CU SHIP-DM SHIP-DU SHIP-ED SHIP-FA Ship-Launched Cruise Missile Ship-of-the-line Ship-of-the-line Ship-owner ship-rigged SHIP-SD Ship-Source Oil Pollution Fund ship-tended acoustic relay Ship-timber beetle Ship-to-Component Record Ship-To-Manufacturing ship-to-shore ship-to-shore Ship-to-Shore Connector Ship-to-Shore Logistics Control Center ship-to-shore movement ship-to-shore movement ship-to-shores

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