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From sea +‎ power.

Noun

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seapower (countable and uncountable, plural seapowers)

  1. naval military power
    • 2009 April 4, Christopher Drew, “Pentagon Weighs Cuts and Revisions of Weapons”, in New York Times[1]:
      Representative Gene Taylor, a Democrat from Mississippi and chairman of a House seapower subcommittee, said questions had emerged about whether a new system for catapulting planes off the next generation of carriers would work.
  2. A country that has an effective military navy

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