Meaning of deep-water | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having a great depth of water.
2. Carried out at great depth.
3. Located in or near deep ocean waters.
4. Living at a great depth underwater

Equivalents

Examples

“a deep-water harbour”

“It is intended to develop San Lourenzo^([sic]) into a deep-water port, as Guayaquil is highly unsuitable because of drifting silt banks and a thirty-mile river approach.”

“The route was opened in stages between 1846-57, to link mineral industries in the area to a deep-water port at Barrow [-in-Furness] and to the rest of the national network.”

“deep-water drilling”

“a deep-water port”

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