transport ship

1. 1.

   a ship for carrying soldiers or military equipment

   Broadership

   military

Questions about transport ship

What does transport ship mean?

transport ship means "a ship for carrying soldiers or military equipment".

Is transport ship a common word?

transport 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.