seapower
English
Alternative forms
- sea power
Etymology
sea + power
Noun
seapower (countable and uncountable, plural seapowers)
- naval military power
- 2009 April 4, Christopher Drew, “Pentagon Weighs Cuts and Revisions of Weapons”, in New York Times:
- Representative Gene Taylor, a Democrat from Mississippi and chairman of a House seapower subcommittee, said questions had emerged about whether a new system for catapulting planes off the next generation of carriers would work.
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- A country that has an effective military navy