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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The war has strangled shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a U-bend-like chokepoint off the Iranian coast that acts as a highway for more than a third of the world’s oceangoing oil exports each year.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026
SINGAPORE—China has put its largest and most sophisticated aircraft carrier into active service, boosting Beijing’s quest to create a formidable oceangoing navy that can challenge U.S. power in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
“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
Salmon and oceangoing trout were severed from these pristine reaches of the river.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 26, 2023
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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