→ see also dry dock 3 LAW the dock the part of a law court where the person who is accused of a crime stands With him in the dock and receiving the same sentence was his business partner. 2 docks a port area James turned up at the docks expecting a luxury liner, only to find a cargo ship.
From Longman Business Dictionary dock dock 1 / dɒkdɑːk / noun 1 TRANSPORT a place in a port where ships are loaded and unloaded Oil can go by pipeline to a nearby dock where tankers can load it.
2 → the docks 3 American English a jetty 4 → the dock 5 → in the dock 6 HBP a plant with thick green leaves that grows wild in Britain a dock leaf 7 a piece of equipment that connects a portable media player to a computer, television etc Examples from the Corpus dock ○ noun 1 TTW a place in a port where ships are loaded, unloaded, or repaired → dry dock A crowd was waiting at the dock to greet them.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Water, Plants, Computers dock dock 1 / dɒk $ dɑːk /