oceangoing
Americanadjective
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(of a ship) designed and equipped to travel on the open sea.
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noting or pertaining to sea transportation.
oceangoing traffic.
Etymology
Origin of oceangoing
Example Sentences
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According to CLIA, North America produced more than 22 million cruise passengers in 2025—a 7.5% increase over 2024—accounting for roughly 60% of the year’s expected 37.3 million global oceangoing passengers.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
About 90% of all trade is handled on an oceangoing basis.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
“We do not know if the ship was oceangoing, meaning that it crossed over the North Sea to England,” Dr. Grønnesby said.
From New York Times • May 31, 2024
She later remarried the captain of an oceangoing ship and immigrated to the United States in 1961.
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2024
Geography didn’t catch up to Eratosthenes until true oceangoing ships proved his calculations directly, almost two thousand years after he was born.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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