docking facility

Questions about docking facility

What does docking facility mean?

docking facility means "landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out".

What is another word for docking facility?

Close synonyms include dock, dockage. 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 docking facility a common word?

docking facility 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.