deep-water

See also: deepwater, Deepwater, deep water, and Deep Water

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deep-water

  1. Having a great depth of water.
    a deep-water harbour
    • 1957 December, J. G. Alderson, “By Rail Through the Andes in Ecuador”, in Railway Magazine, page 837:
      It is intended to develop San Lourenzo[sic] into a deep-water port, as Guayaquil is highly unsuitable because of drifting silt banks and a thirty-mile river approach.
    • 2021 October 20, “News in pictures”, in RAIL, number 942, page 31, photo caption:
      The route was opened in stages between 1846-57, to link mineral industries in the area to a deep-water port at Barrow [-in-Furness] and to the rest of the national network.
  2. Carried out at great depth.
    deep-water drilling
  3. Located in or near deep ocean waters.
    a deep-water port
  4. Living at a great depth underwater

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