laid-up
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Storing and maintaining Britain's 19 laid-up nuclear submarines has cost taxpayers nearly £16m over the last five years, it has emerged.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2015
Means were ready for the seizure and sale of the 143 laid-up refugee ships of conquered European nations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before the House Naval Affairs Committee, Secretary James Forrestal summarized it: a 300-ship active fleet, a 100-ship "ready reserve," plus a 700-ship "laid-up reserve" to be called out only under the grimmest conditions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Hutton, who maintained the Hussar, world's biggest sailing yacht, came out strongly for the commissioning of laid-up yachts as a means of increasing employment.
From Time Magazine Archive
What is it that thou have a hundred thousand-pound bills laid-up in thy strong-room, a hundred scalps hung-up in thy wigwam?
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas
