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US
/ˈwɔtɝˌtaɪt/
]
[ UK /wˈɔːtətˌaɪt/ ]
[ UK /wˈɔːtətˌaɪt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
without flaws or loopholes
an ironclad contract
a bulletproof argument
a watertight alibi - not allowing water to pass in or out
How To Use watertight In A Sentence
- The watertight rooms, costing from £500 a night up to £3,000 for a suite, are aimed at wealthy travellers who want a unique holiday experience.
- The DLR has become the latest corporate supporter of The Cutty Sark Trust after donating £5,000 to help ensure the deckhouses are sufficiently watertight to withstand the rain.
- To their credit the builders have used bulkheads that are watertight between the hull and cabin soles to divide the boat into three separate compartments.
- Therefore, the boat was equipped with fifteen watertight compartments, strictly divided up lengthways and breadthways, so she could stay afloat whatever happened.
- Defences now being put in place have been calculated to ensure a relatively watertight town for the next 50 years.
- Sadly it wasn't quite enough to break down the watertight Rovers defence and as the play ended, the hooter signalled the end of a quite remarkable encounter.
- The watertight seals over structural joints tend to deteriorate over time as the caulking becomes less sticky and dislodges.
- How watertight do you need these to be, factually?
- There are no watertight theories of political praxis that are without contradictions and limitations.
- He went on to state that all aspects of anti-social behaviour have to be examined and a case would have to be watertight before the local authority went to court seeking to evict a tenant.