container vessel

1. 1.

   a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes

   “the weight of the documentation of all the consignments on board a contemporary container ship can exceed 90 pounds”

   Synonymscontainer shipcontainership

   Broadercargo ship

Questions about container vessel

What does container vessel mean?

container vessel means "a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes".

What is another word for container vessel?

Close synonyms include container ship, containership. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is container vessel a common word?

container vessel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.