troopship

[ troop-ship ]

/ ˈtrupˌʃɪp /

noun

a ship for the conveyance of military troops; transport.

Nearby words

trone, tronk, troop, troop carrier, trooper, troopship, troostite, troostitic, trop, trop-, trop.

Origin of troopship

First recorded in 1860–65; troop + ship¹

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Examples from the Web for troopship

Every liner is a troopship, filled with returning soldiers, and the staterooms are crowded with officers and diplomats.
Louisiana Lou|William West Winter
Who of the millions that have undergone the experience will ever forget their first crossing of the Channel in a troopship?
Canada in Flanders, Volume II (of 3)|Lord Max Aitken Beaverbrook
Feb. 6—United States troopship Tuscania sunk by submarine, lost.
America's War for Humanity|Thomas Herbert Russell
The troopship had arrived and we were to embark on the morrow.
A Soldier's Life|Edwin G. Rundle

Here we were put aboard the hospital ship Rewa, an old rocky tub that had been an Indian troopship before the war.
Trenching at Gallipoli|John Gallishaw

British Dictionary definitions for troopship

troopship

/ (ˈtruːpˌʃɪp) /

noun

a ship, usually a converted merchant ship, used to transport military personnel

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