floating dry dock

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   dry dock that can be submerged under a vessel and then raised

   Synonymsfloating dock

   Broaderdry dock

Questions about floating dry dock

What does floating dry dock mean?

floating dry dock means "dry dock that can be submerged under a vessel and then raised".

What is another word for floating dry dock?

Close synonyms include floating dock. 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 floating dry dock a common word?

floating dry dock 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.