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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
ship-breaker is a noun meaning "a contractor who buys old ships and breaks them up for scrap". It carries one recorded sense.
a contractor who buys old ships and breaks them up for scrap
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ship-breaker come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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