antishipping
adjEtymology From anti- + shipping.
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Government, Military, Politics, War Countering shipping.
- […] and passed an antishipping liquor law which prohibits the carrying or shipping of liquors for beverage purposes […]1927, Ernest Hurst Cherrington, The Anti-saloon League Year Book, page 99:
- The Luftwaffe also conducted antishipping offensive operations, which ranged over vast areas, from France to far out over the Atlantic in great operational arcs emanating from Germany and Norway.2012, Walter J. Boyne, Clash of Wings: World War II in the Air:
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Lifestyle Slang The activities of antishippers.
- Related terms
- anti-ship, antiship, anti-shipped, antishipped, anti-shipper, antishipper, pro-shipped, proshipped, pro-shipper, proshipper, pro-shipping, proshipping, pro-ship, proship