From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishseabornesea‧borne /ˈsiːbɔːn $ -bɔːrn/ adjective [only before noun] TTWcarried on or arriving in ships the threat of a seaborne invasion
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seaborne• They had brought most of the pieces up from the harbour defences, not anticipating another seaborne assault meantime.• a seaborne attack• Between 1670 and 1750 the capital's intake of seaborne coal from the north-east averaged an annual half a million tons.• Bristol, too, took in a whole range of seaborne food supplies.• It looked even then as if the seaborne invasion might not be necessary.• In 1963 two more of the second-generation seaborne listening posts were commissioned.• For Venice, the freedom of navigation along the Adriatic was vital to the maintenance of its seaborne trade with the Levant. 