ship-breaker

1. 1.

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

   Broadercontractor

Questions about ship-breaker

What does ship-breaker mean?

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

How many syllables are in ship-breaker?

ship-breaker has 4 syllables and divides as ship--bre-a-ker under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is ship-breaker a common word?

ship-breaker 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.