Jack-up

"Jack-up" in a Sentence (3 examples)

It’s hard to stay in business with the recent jack-up in fuel costs.

a jack-up rig

The second phase of resilience work at Dawlish station began on November 5, with the arrival off the coast of an eight-legged walking jack-up barge known as a Wavewalker.

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