the ocean floor, esp. the areas with rich mineral or oil deposits
Examples of 'seabed' in a sentence
seabed
It plans to scour the seabed for minerals rather than digging mines on land.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The race is on for each country to map the seabed to strengthen its claim.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The implication was that they had detected the aircraft's fuselage hitting the seabed.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
THIS business supplies oil and gas companies with equipment and services to link the seabed to the surface.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Investigators have scoured the Atlantic seabed with a robot submarine equipped with a camera trying to find traces of the lost jet for nearly two years.
The Sun (2011)
The battle for control of the world 's seabed has intensified as technology makes oil and gas there more accessible, and soaring prices make exploration affordable.