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  • 1factory ship — factory ships N COUNT A factory ship is a large fishing boat which has equipment for processing the fish that are caught, for example by cleaning or freezing them, before it returns to port …

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  • 2Factory ship — A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean going vessel with extensive on board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish. According to the FAO, there are about 38,400 vessels greater than 100 tons in the… …

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  • 3factory ship — 1. a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by products. 2. Also called factory trawler. a large fishing vessel, usually a stern trawler, equipped for processing and freezing fish at sea. [1925 30] * * * ▪… …

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  • 4factory ship — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms factory ship : singular factory ship plural factory ships a large fishing boat that carries equipment to process and freeze fish that are caught …

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  • 5Factory — This article is about manufacturing plants and different kinds of factories. For other uses, see Factory (disambiguation). Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is an industrial… …

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  • 6Factory Green — Infobox Company company name = Factory Green, Inc. company company type = Private company slogan = foundation = 2007 location = Columbia, Missouri, USA key people = Co Founders: Daniel Lyons Jack Short num employees = industry = Retail (Apparel)… …

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  • 7Factory and Machinery Act — The Factory and Machinery Act 1967 (Act 139) is a piece of Malaysian legislation which was enacted in 1967 as Act No. 64 of 1967 and revised on April 1, 1974 as Laws of Malaysia Act 139. The Act was gazette on February 1, 1970. The principle of… …

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  • 8factory ship — a large stern trawler equipped with a plant for gutting, filleting, freezing and storing fish, for processing fish oil and fish meal, and sometimes canning. Catches its own fish and takes fish from other ships to process …

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  • 9List of ships of the Culture setting — This is a list of spaceships found in the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks. Most ships in this list are members of The Culture, the hybrid society featured in many of these novels. In this setting, each Culture ship, and some others, is also an… …

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  • 10Red seal ships — For the RCA or RCA Victor record series, see RCA Red Seal Records Red seal ships (朱印船 Shuinsen ) were Japanese armed merchant sailing ships bound for Southeast Asian ports with a red sealed patent issued by the early Tokugawa shogunate in the… …

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