troopship
noun
troop·ship
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In the hours of darkness, a mighty concentration of ships, troopships, supply ships, warships, moved quietly up the Channel and made their rendezvous in the Bay of the Seine. — Time, "Inside General Eisenhower’s Sleepless Night Ahead of the D-Day Invasion," 6 June 2019 In May 1946, Richard Wright, his wife, Ellen, and their daughter, Julia, left New York Harbor on board the SS Brazil, an old cargo boat transformed into a troopship and now a passenger liner. — Longreads, "When Sartre and Beauvoir Started a Magazine," 10 Apr. 2018 In the hours of darkness, a mighty concentration of ships, troopships, supply ships, warships, moved quietly up the Channel and made their rendezvous in the Bay of the Seine. — Time, "Inside General Eisenhower’s Sleepless Night Ahead of the D-Day Invasion," 6 June 2019 In May 1946, Richard Wright, his wife, Ellen, and their daughter, Julia, left New York Harbor on board the SS Brazil, an old cargo boat transformed into a troopship and now a passenger liner. — Longreads, "When Sartre and Beauvoir Started a Magazine," 10 Apr. 2018 The setting is a troopship a few days out of New York City and bound for France. — Patricia Clifford, Smithsonian, "Why Did So Few Novels Tackle the 1918 Pandemic?," 25 Oct. 2017 While the Luftwaffe couldn't find any troopship, German planes did discover several ships docked at the Straits of Gubal, between the Sinai Peninsula and the West coast of the Red Sea. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "Take a 360-Degree Tour to See a World War II Shipwreck in Stunning Detail," 19 Oct. 2017 Join the Dorchester troopship, headed for Europe in 1943. — Elliot Kaufman, National Review, "Grace on the Fourth of July," 4 July 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'troopship.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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troopship
noun
English Language Learners Definition of troopship
: a ship used to transport soldiers
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