: existing or taking place on board a ship
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Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 16 Oct. 2024
As an incentive to sign up for a future cruise, the coordinator promised an additional shipboard credit of $100 per person and — at no extra cost — an all-inclusive package that includes drinks, Wi-Fi and staff gratuities.
—Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
Curbed, 3 Mar. 2022
Interested in inverting the power dynamics between the superrich and those underpaid to serve them, Ostlund found de Leon’s transformation from shipboard housekeeping staffer to authoritative captain ashore to be searingly convincing.
—Carlos Aguilar, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2022
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Noun
For example, 63 percent of Royal Caribbean’s shipboard workforce is from the Philippines, Indonesia or India, the top three suppliers, according to according to a 2023 company regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
—Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 16 Oct. 2024
As an incentive to sign up for a future cruise, the coordinator promised an additional shipboard credit of $100 per person and — at no extra cost — an all-inclusive package that includes drinks, Wi-Fi and staff gratuities.
—Christopher Elliott, King Features Syndicate, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
Adjective
And then there’s the efficiency with which the shipboard lifestyle promotes a lively assortment of respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses.
—Curbed, 3 Mar. 2022
Interested in inverting the power dynamics between the superrich and those underpaid to serve them, Ostlund found de Leon’s transformation from shipboard housekeeping staffer to authoritative captain ashore to be searingly convincing.
—Carlos Aguilar, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2022
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“Shipboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shipboard. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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shipboard
1 of 2 noun
ship·board
ˈship-ˌbō(ə)rd 
-ˌbȯ(ə)rd
1
: the side of a ship
2
: ship entry 1 sense 1
met on shipboard
shipboard
2 of 2 adjective
: existing or taken place on board a ship
a shipboard romance
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