ship of state
noun phrase
: the affairs of a state symbolized as a ship on a course
Word History
First Known Use
1615, in the meaning defined above
- joint vetch
- joint water
- joint wire
- joint wood berry
- joint-bedded
- joint-fir family
- joint-stock bank
- joint-stock company
- jointed
- jointed cactus
- jointed charlock
- jointed fern
- jointedly
- jointedness
- jointednesses
- jointer
- jointer gauge
- jointer plane
- jointers
- jointest
- jointing
- jointing rule
- jointings
- jointless
- jointlier