supply ship

1. 1.

   ship that usually provides supplies to other ships

   Synonymstender

   Broadership

Questions about supply ship

What does supply ship mean?

supply ship means "ship that usually provides supplies to other ships".

What is another word for supply ship?

Close synonyms include tender. 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 supply ship a common word?

supply ship 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.