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noun
a government dockyard where naval ships are built, repaired, and fitted out, and naval supplies and munitions are laid up.
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Origin of navy yard
First recorded in 1765–75
Words nearby navy yard
Navy Cross,
navy cut,
navy gray,
Navy List,
navy plug,
navy yard,
nawab,
Naxalite,
Naxçivan,
Naxos,
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How to use navy yard in a sentence
“The U.S. Navy will attain IOC [initial operational capability] in 2018 with 3F software,” DellaVedova wrote.
Jettison your lawyers as a source of prison-yard guidance, Abramoff said.
He was a great lover of the navy, and he liked me because of it.
My father was in an intelligence unit for the U.S. Navy, as he had been in World War II.
The Navy and Marine Corps versions of the F-35 have differing configurations and rely on an external gun pod.
Sol got up, slowly; took a backward step into the yard; filled his lungs, opened his mouth, made his eyes round.
They ran side by side across the yard to a roofed flight of steps that led to the printing-office.
After his death crowds flocked to his grave to touch his holy monument, till the authorities caused the church yard to be shut.
In the court-yard of the hotel was standing the voiture, which had come in some twenty minutes before us.
The huge sail thrust its yard high above the fog bank, and watchers on the river side saw it.
British Dictionary definitions for navy yard
noun
a naval shipyard, esp in the US
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