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ship·board  (shpbôrd, -brd)
n.
1. The condition of being aboard a ship: on shipboard.
2. Archaic The side of a ship.
adj.
Existing or occurring on board a ship: a shipboard fire.
shipboard [ˈʃɪpˌbɔːd]
n
1. (Transport / Nautical Terms) (modifier) taking place, used, or intended for use aboard a ship a shipboard encounter
(Transport / Nautical Terms)
on shipboard on board a ship
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Adj.1.shipboard - casual or ephemeral as if taking place on board a ship; "shipboard romances"
impermanent, temporary - not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing"
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shipboard [ˈʃɪpbɔːd] N on shipboard → a bordo


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A SAILOR, bound on a long voyage, took with him a Monkey to amuse him while on shipboard.
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The patriarch, impatient to be gone, took leave in the most tender manner of the governor and his other friends, recommended our voyage to the Blessed Virgin, and in the field, before we went on shipboard, made a short exhortation, so moving and pathetic, that it touched the hearts of all who heard it.
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The Lady Arbella, looking paler than she did on shipboard, is sitting in her chair, and thinking mournfully of far-off England.
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