container ship
noun
variants
or less commonly containership
: a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo
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The allegation might have risen above ignorant innuendo if Lyman had tried to show any evidence that the governor, the mayor or the port commissioner had anything to do with the container ship striking the bridge.
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Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
The case echoed a similar episode last year, when a Chinese container ship, also dragging its anchor over the Baltic Sea bed, severed a Russian fiber-optic cable.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2024
An aerial view of a container ship leaving the dockyard in Qingdao in east China’s Shandong province.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 13 Jan. 2025
The ship was originally a commercial container ship but was modified into a drone carrier vessel for Iran’s naval forces.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2024
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Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
The case echoed a similar episode last year, when a Chinese container ship, also dragging its anchor over the Baltic Sea bed, severed a Russian fiber-optic cable.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2024
An aerial view of a container ship leaving the dockyard in Qingdao in east China’s Shandong province.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 13 Jan. 2025
The ship was originally a commercial container ship but was modified into a drone carrier vessel for Iran’s naval forces.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Container ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/container%20ship. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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containership
noun
con·tain·er·ship
kən-ˈtā-nər-ˌship 
: a ship designed or equipped to carry very large containers of cargo
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