landing ship, tank

English

Alternative forms

  • landing ship tank

Noun

landing ship, tank (plural landing ships, tank)

  1. The naval designation for a type of landing ship used during the Second World War to carry tanks, cargo, and to land troops.
    Synonym: LST (initialism)
    • 1952, Winston Churchill, The Second World War, volume 2:
      The ‘landing-ship, tank’ […] had first been conceived and developed in Britain in 1940.

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