watertight compartment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwatertightandcompartment
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watertight
adjective
uk/ˈwɔː.tə.taɪt/us/ˈwɑː.t̬ɚ.taɪt/
having no openings to allow water to ...
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compartment
noun[C]
uk/kəmˈpɑːt.mənt/us/kəmˈpɑːrt.mənt/
one of the separate areas inside a vehicle, especially ...
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(Definition ofwatertightandcompartmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They live in awatertightcompartment.
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Each year is a separatewatertightcompartment.
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I cannot myself admit the existence of anywatertightcompartment.
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We cannot keep education in awatertightcompartment.
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We should not look at disarmament in awatertightcompartment.
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I shall not keep the problem in awatertightcompartment.
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The subject must not be kept in awatertightcompartment.
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It is a little difficult to discuss these things in a completewatertightcompartment.
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Each commodity was being treated, as it were, in awatertightcompartment.
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It is no use working in awatertightcompartmentas an autonomous unit.
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We know that it hinges on rehabilitation, but rehabilitation is not in awatertightcompartment.
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The tank design department works far too much as awatertightcompartment.
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We cannot regard special unemployment in a district as something in awatertightcompartment.
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I do not want this matter to be considered in awatertightcompartment.
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He seems to think you can deal with labour in awatertightcompartment.
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It ought not to be confined in anywatertightcompartment; it should be applied all round.
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Exports cannot be isolated; you cannot put them in awatertightcompartment.
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Or is this new organisation to be awatertightcompartmentfree from all criticism?
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We had a most astonishing illustration of his preparedness to work in awatertightcompartment.
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It is impossible to isolate the department in awatertightcompartment.
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Those prejudices and superstitions have contributed to putting technical education in awatertightcompartment.
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In other words we cannot consider nature conservation as awatertightcompartment.
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These two turbines were located in the forwardwatertightcompartment.
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After the refits, one morewatertightcompartmentwas added.
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We should all lead very dreary lives if we shut our politics away in awatertightcompartment.
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