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Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens.
Rose George

Meaning of "Suez" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SUEZ

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUEZ

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Suez is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SUEZ MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Suez

Suez

Suez is a seaport city in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez, near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, having the same boundaries as Suez governorate. It has three harbors, Adabya, Ain Sokhna and Port Tawfiq, and extensive port facilities. Together they form a metropolitan area. Railway lines and highways connect the city with Cairo, Port Said, and Ismailia. Suez has a petrochemical plant, and its oil refineries have pipelines carrying the finished product to Cairo.

Definition of Suez in the English dictionary

The definition of Suez in the dictionary is a port in NE Egypt, at the head of the Gulf of Suez at the S end of the Suez Canal: an ancient trading site and a major naval station under the Ottoman Empire; port of departure for pilgrims to Mecca; oil-refining centre. It suffered severely in the Arab-Israeli conflicts of 1967 and 1973. Pop: 513 000.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUEZ

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Suez Canal
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WORDS THAT END LIKE SUEZ

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Gulf of Suez
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Synonyms and antonyms of Suez in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Suez» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

苏伊士
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Suez
570 millions of speakers

English

Suez
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्वेज
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

السويس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Суэцкий
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Suez
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সুয়েজ
260 millions of speakers

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Suez
220 millions of speakers

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Suez
190 millions of speakers

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Suez
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Translator English - Japanese

スエズ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

수에즈
85 millions of speakers

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Suez
85 millions of speakers
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Suez
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சூயஸ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुएझ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Süveyş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Suez
65 millions of speakers

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Suez
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Суецький
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Suez
30 millions of speakers
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Suez
15 millions of speakers
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Suez
14 millions of speakers
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Suez
10 millions of speakers
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Suez
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Trends of use of Suez

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUEZ»

The term «Suez» is quite widely used and occupies the 25.878 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Suez

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QUOTES WITH «SUEZ»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Suez.
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Rose George
Ships are obliged to take on harbor or river pilots - who provide specialized local navigation - when they approach a port, but in the canal, a Suez crew is also obligatory. The crew members are there in case the ship needs to be moored during the canal transit, but this rarely happens.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUEZ»

Discover the use of Suez in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Suez and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Suez Crisis
Traces the course of events after Egyptian President Gamal Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal in July 1956.
Derek Varble, 2009
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Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez, ...
This book traces the British Empire from the scramble for Africa through the Mandates system of 'sacred trust', the turbulent imperial history of the Second World War in Asia and finally to the the unstoppable mid-20th century rush to ...
William Roger Louis, 2006
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Suez: Britain's End of Empire in the Middle East
In this, the seminal work on the Suez campaign, Keith Kyle draws on a wealth of documentary evidence and first-hand interviews to reveal the political, military and diplomatic aspects of this fascinating story.
Keith Kyle, 2011
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Eden, Suez and the Mass Media: Propaganda and Persuasion ...
Through a study of the Eden Government's battle for the hearts of the British and Americans during the Suez Crisis, the book dispels the myth that the media were passive observers of events and reflected public opinion.
Tony Shaw, 1996
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Reassessing Suez 1956: New Perspectives on the Crisis and ...
Drawing on recently released documents, including previously neglected aspects of Suez, and by reassessing its more familiar ones, the volume makes a key contribution to furthering research on, and understanding of, events in Egypt in 1956.
Prof Dr Simon C Smith, 2013
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Britain and Suez: The Lion's Last Roar
The Suez War in 1956 marked the end of the British Empire, with the government of Anthony Eden forced into a ceasefire as it tried to seize the Suez Canal and overthrow the Egyptian government.
Scott Lucas, 1996
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The crossing of Suez
Saad Shazly was Chief of Staff for the Egyptian Armed Forces during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, and this is his account of that war. This updated edition includes three new chapters by the author.
Saad Shazly, 2003
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Economic Diplomacy of the Suez Crisis
Diane Kunz describes here how the United States employed economic diplomacy to affect relations among states during the Suez Crisis of 1956-57.
Diane B. Kunz, 1991
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Suez 1956: The Crisis and Its Consequences
This is an analysis, based on newly available evidence, of the Suez crisis of 1956, its origins, and its consequences.
William Roger Louis, Roger Owen, 1991
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Eisenhower and the Suez Crisis of 1956
Historian Cole C. Kingseed reinforces the revisionist perspective on Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency in this study of one of the major foreign policy challenges of Eisenhower's administration: the Suez crisis of 1956.
Cole Christian Kingseed, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUEZ»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Suez is used in the context of the following news items.
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Egypt ready to open 'New Suez Canal'
Egypt says it is set to open a new 72-km section of the Suez Canal. Touted as a “national project,” it will nearly double the speed of traffic in the canal – and is ... «RT, Jul 15»
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Egypt holds trial run on second Suez Canal
The first cargo ships have passed through Egypt's second Suez Canal, amid tight security, ahead of the new waterway's official opening next month. «BBC News, Jul 15»
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Egypt arrests 13 Muslim Brotherhood members on suspicion of …
REUTERS - Egyptian authorities have arrested 13 members of the Muslim Brotherhood on suspicion of planting bombs around the Suez Canal to disrupt ... «Haaretz, Jul 15»
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Egypt prepares to open new Suez Canal to run alongside the …
Egypt's new Suez Canal is expected to open in early August in a project president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi sees as a potent symbol of national pride and to boost the ... «ABC Online, Jun 15»
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Egyptians race to expand Suez Canal, hoping for trade surge
ISMAILIA, Egypt (AP) — Bulldozers push earth and dredgers spit mud round the clock at Egypt's Suez Canal in a race to quickly expand the strategic waterway ... «Yahoo News, Mar 15»
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UPDATE 1-Suez Canal sets discount for LNG carrier transit toll at 25 …
ISMAILIA Egypt Feb 4 (Reuters) - Suez Canal transit tolls will remain steady in 2015 except for a reduction in the discount for liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, ... «Reuters, Feb 15»
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Collision kills 13 Egyptian fishermen in Gulf of Suez
Eleven fishermen were killed and 23 others are still missing after a passing cargo ship collided with a small boat in the Gulf of Suez early Sunday. (Shutterstock) ... «Al-Arabiya, Dec 14»
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Watch Two Massive Ships Collide in Suez Canal
Two container ships passing through Egypt's Suez Canal collided near the northern opening of the waterway, officials said on Monday. The two vessels—the ... «Slate Magazine, Oct 14»
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Egypt raises EGP 61 billion for new Suez Canal
The investment certificates, which have an interest rate of 12 percent and were only available to Egyptians, will be used to finance the new Suez Canal project ... «Egyptian Streets, Sep 14»
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Egypt Awards Suez Project to Group Including Army
CAIRO—. Egypt's Suez Canal Authority announced on Tuesday that a Bahrain-registered firm is to develop a huge industrial and logistics hub around the canal, ... «Voice of America, Aug 14»

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