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noun place for loading/unloading ships ADJ. commercial | coal, fish, etc. VERB + DOCK build, construct | arrive at/in | enter DOCK + NOUN company | strike | worker PREP. at a/the ~ A car pulled up at the dock. | in ~ The ship is in dock for repairs. | on a/the ~ the cargo stacked on the dock the dock: in a court of law VERB + DOCK enter, go into, step into | appear in, be in She was in the dock on charges of attempted fraud. | be put in, end up in, land in After a night of drunken revelry they ended up in the dock. PREP. from the ~ an outburst from the dock | in the ~ The defendant stood in the dock.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary