yacht
a vessel used for private cruising, racing, or other noncommercial purposes.
to sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.
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1Other words from yacht
- yachty, adjective
- su·per·yacht, noun
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As City News explained it, the bribes were paid not only in cash but through rugs, antiques, furniture, yacht club fees, boat repairs and more.
Morning Report: County Gives COVID Patients’ Addresses to Police | Voice of San Diego | January 21, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoIn Ashburn, Snyder is always lurking in spirit, even if he is on his 305-foot yacht somewhere in the Aegean.
Don’t make what’s interesting important, Ron Rivera says. Easier said than done for Washington. | Thomas M. Boswell | December 27, 2020 | Washington PostDriving across country in a gigantic land yacht—with its crushed-velour seats and faux wood siding—was more practical than a two-door hot rod.
Host Jason Moore chats with experts who share tips harvested from their real-life experiences, such as a couple who paid off their $70,000 debt to travel full time and a woman who left her corporate job to work on a yacht.
With travel podcasts, explore the world through your ear buds | Andrea Sachs | December 11, 2020 | Washington PostUntil Thursday, when federal agents escorted him off a 150-foot yacht moored in Long Island Sound, the word often used to describe Steve Bannon was “irrelevant.”
Instead the money allegedly was spent on luxury cars and a yacht club membership, among other things.
Obama’s Golf Buddy May Be a ‘Hostile Witness’ in Chicago Corruption Case | Ben Jacobs | December 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLoeb owns a $100 million penthouse on Central Park West and a $50 million yacht.
Hunger Games Comes to New York State’s Public Schools | Zephyr Teachout | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSolaire has set up charging capabilities at a project it built at a yacht club in Massachusetts, for example.
On my way back into town, I walked by the fortress of tents surrounding the harbor, readying for the yacht show.
No Movie Stars, No Red Carpet, But Off-Season Cannes Is Still Magic | Liza Foreman | September 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNewly-minted Londoner, Lindsay Lohan, is currently chilling out on a yacht in Italy.
Lindsay Lohan Parties in Europe And Posts Revealing Instagram From Yacht | Tom Sykes | July 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI heard her say to one of the servants once that my father had been lost on a yacht, and that he was oh, ever such a handsome man.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonHe owned a 54-ton yacht named the Opal, and attributed the wonderful health he enjoyed to his numerous sea voyages.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerAnother yacht had started from the old boathouse at about the time our friends and their new-fangled craft got under way.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. MorrisonCaermarthen ordered out his wonderful yacht, and hastened to complain to the King, who was then at Loo.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayThe yacht had long turned the head of the island and was beating down alongshore in the eastern bay.
The Rival Campers | Ruel Perley Smith
British Dictionary definitions for yacht
/ (jɒt) /
a vessel propelled by sail or power, used esp for pleasure cruising, racing, etc
short for sand yacht, ice yacht
(intr) to sail or cruise in a yacht
Origin of yacht
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