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waterfront
/ ˈɔːəˌڰʌԳ /
noun
- the area of a town or city alongside a body of water, such as a harbour or dockyard
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of waterfront1
Idioms and Phrases
see cover the field (waterfront) .Example Sentences
She said Kamon had refused to facilitate the sale of a $2.4-million waterfront mansion he owned in the Bahamas and had not turned over $1 million discovered in Hungarian and Bahamian banks.
Back then the waterfronts of Port Glasgow and neighbouring Greenock were filled with shipyards.
Parcel by parcel, the land along the city’s waterfront was transformed into entertainment venues, parks and trails.
“These are both areas with very low land elevations that could be impacted by a small increase in waterfront flooding,” the geological survey said.
Even on the waterfront, where several pockets of homes remained — the devastation appeared to have occurred in clumps.
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