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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Of a boat: designed or modified to allow people to live on board..
2008, Zoe Simpson, A Matter of Degree, Fossil-Imprints, UK, page 132, ‘None of the boats around you have liveaboards, do they?’ put in Mum.
“We′re going to move aboard, sail around the world and do some writing,” the letter goes. “How are our chances?” It′s a common question from readers who know that my husband and I support our liveaboard life through writing and photography.
This marina is the closest to the ocean and has a surprisingly liberal liveaboard policy (10 percent of the total population; children, pets, okay).
Pat and Kelly′s was the haven for the liveaboard community and had acquired a legendary reputation for a salty ambiance involving a couple of parrots, a raccoon, dogs and independent liveaboards who had little time for established governments.
Liveaboards come in all kinds of shapes and sizes: monohulls, catamarans, and trimarans, from less than 30 feet to over 100. A liveaboard serves as hotel, restaurant, and dive shop all in one — and sometimes even as a photoprocessing lab, too.
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Liveaboard means Of a boat: designed or modified to allow people to live on board..
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2008, Zoe Simpson, A Matter of Degree, Fossil-Imprints, UK, page 132, ‘None of the boats around you have liveaboards, do they?’ put in Mum.
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