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  • noun Plural form of navy.

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Examples

  • All, I may remind you, a reflection of sea power and of the immense importance of the dominant role played by His Majesty's navies from the homeland and from the Dominion of Canada.

    The Plans Unfold 1944

  • Remember that the revolutionary movement in Eastern Europe, no less than in the American and British navies, is an integral part of the Allied blockade of the Central Empires.

    Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship 1918

  • RIO DE JANEIRO - Latin American navies are moving to modernize the electronics and communications of their fleets of German-designed 209 submarines, an executive of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) said.

    News From DefenseNews.com 2009

  • RIO DE JANEIRO - Latin American navies are moving to modernize the electronics and communications of their fleets of German-designed 209 submarines, an executive of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) said.

    News From DefenseNews.com 2009

  • What is a problem for the navies is a boon for local fishermen.

    t r u t h o u t 2010

  • On both sides of the Channel, the hammering of shipwrights 'tools called their navies to war.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • "navies" were at hand -- with reduced loads, naturally -- for those who in habitual life affected these weapons.

    The Gray Dawn Stewart Edward White 1909

  • The millions of soldiers and sailors and workmen in the standing armies, in the navies, and in the countless arsenals, machine-shops, and factories for the manufacture of war machinery, were dismissed to their homes.

    Goliah 2010

  • He said the U.S. also provides interceptor boats and communications equipment to partner navies.

    US General: Central America Home to One of World's Deadliest Regions 2011

  • And the Korean navies clashed in a larger skirmish in late 2009.

    North, South Korea trade shots; no injuries Chico Harlan 2010

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