shipboard duty

1. 1.

   naval service aboard a ship at sea

   Synonymssea-dutyservice abroad

   Broaderassignment

Questions about shipboard duty

What does shipboard duty mean?

shipboard duty means "naval service aboard a ship at sea".

What is another word for shipboard duty?

Close synonyms include sea-duty, service abroad. 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 shipboard duty a common word?

shipboard duty 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.