STEAMSHIP COMPANY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steamship company mean? 

• STEAMSHIP COMPANY (noun)
  The noun STEAMSHIP COMPANY has 1 sense:

1. a line responsible for the operation of a fleet of steamships

  Familiarity information: STEAMSHIP COMPANY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEAMSHIP COMPANY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A line responsible for the operation of a fleet of steamships

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

steamship company; steamship line

Hypernyms ("steamship company" is a kind of...):

line (a commercial organization serving as a common carrier)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steamship company"):

fleet (a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership)

 Context examples 

Him we enlisted at Para, on the recommendation of the steamship company, on whose vessels he had learned to speak a halting English.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)