Definition of Shipowners

1. Noun. (plural of shipowner) ¹

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Definition of Shipowners

1. shipowner [n] - See also: shipowner

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shipowners

shiplet
shiplets
shiplike
shipling
shipload
shiploads
shipman
shipmaster
shipmasters
shipmate
shipmates
shipmen
shipment
shipments
shipowner
shipowners (current term)
shippable
shippage
shippe
shipped
shippen
shippens
shipper
shipper weld
shippers
shippes
shipping
shipping agent
shipping articles
shipping clerk

Literary usage of Shipowners

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce by William Schaw Lindsay (1876)
"Despondency of many shipowners after the repeal of the Navigation Laws—Advantage naturally taken by foreigners, and especially by the Americans—Jardine and ..."

2. Papers on Maritime Legislation: With a Translation of the German Mercantile by Ernest Emil Wendt (1871)
"GRUNER & HEYE, Merchants. ALBERS & CLAUSSEN, Merchants and shipowners. STOCKMEYER, MOSLE, & Co., Merchants and shipowners. BOLTE & Co., Merchants. ..."

3. Papers on Maritime Legislation: With a Translation of the German Mercantile by Ernest Emil Wendt (1871)
"SCHRODER BORGSTEDE & Co., Merchants and shipowners. ALRR. Nics. ... CA KOCH & VISSER, Merchants and shipowners. JC WATERMEYER, Merchant. ..."

4. The Anatomy of the Navigation Laws by John Lewis Ricardo (1847)
"THE ACCOUNT shipowners GIVE OF THEIR OWN CONDITION. ... shipowners generally have not had greater profit than persons in other trades, taking shipowners as ..."

5. History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce by William Schaw Lindsay (1874)
"ALTHOUGH there is reason to fear that the shipowners of America, having made the profits of a war in Europe a matter of deliberate calculation, ..."

6. The British Navy: Its Strength, Resources, and Administration by Thomas Brassey Brassey (1883)
"POWER OF BRITISH shipowners TO COMPETE WITH FOREIGNERS. IT has been contended that we can neither build nor sell ships as cheaply as the shipowners of ..."

7. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1856)
"... which comprised shipowners, shipbuilders, officers of the Royal Navy, merchant sen-ice, ... as representing the shipowners and shipbuilders of Scotland, ..."

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