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dockland

[ dok-land ]

noun

, Chiefly British.
  1. the land or area surrounding a commercial port.


dockland

/ ˈdɒkˌlænd /

noun

  1. the area around the docks
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dockland1

First recorded in 1900–05; dock 1 + land
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Example Sentences

There are no strikes currently planned on the Elizabeth line, Overground, London Trams or Dockland Light Railway services.

From BBC

Hasty was born in 1936 in Sailortown, a multicultural dockland in north Belfast, a decade before that other prodigy, George Best, was born in east Belfast.

In 2011, he launched what would become a series of annual ideas conferences, the Mad Symposiums, where invited speakers – everyone from the head of the European Environmental Agency to Japan’s most celebrated soba noodle maker – would address an audience of superchefs, interns, farmers, journalists and industry figures on a patch of Copenhagen dockland.

“I want to get it back to what it once was,” said Brian Treacy, the president of the Sagamore Spirit Distillery, which opened in 2017 along a postindustrial stretch of Baltimore dockland.

Roosegaarde’s studio is situated in Merwe-Vierhavens, an area of former dockland that the city government has designated an “innovation district.”

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