Synonyms for berth
bɜrθberth

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1. position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situationnoun

   a job in an organization

   "he occupied a post in the treasury"

   Synonyms:
   stance, state of affairs, touch, billet, short letter, seat, lieu, place, spot, perspective, locating, mail, bureau, authority, role, home, station, function, view, post, plaza, property, piazza, mooring, spotlight, topographic point, point, mail service, part, note, position, spatial relation, bunk, power, dapple, speckle, status, positioning, government agency, fleck, agency, blank space, posture, smear, moorage, site, slip, business office, slur, military position, maculation, attitude, daub, placement, bit, smudge, line, emplacement, space, stead, postal service, smirch, office staff, situation, side, location, office, stain, federal agency, pip, stake, built in bed, military post, shoes, patch, blot

2. mooring, moorage, berth, slipnoun

   a place where a craft can be made fast

   Synonyms:
   cutting, billet, place, spot, trip, case, faux pas, pillowcase, miscue, gaffe, slickness, slipperiness, elusion, tying up, post, mooring, slick, gaucherie, parapraxis, chemise, position, bunk, teddy, docking, sideslip, mooring line, eluding, shimmy, pillow slip, dockage, moorage, slip, skid, slip of paper, shift, situation, office, solecism, built in bed, strip, slip-up

3. berth, bunk, built in bedverb

   a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers

   Synonyms:
   bunkum, hogwash, feed bunk, rot, post, slip, bunk, place, mooring, hokum, nonsensicality, buncombe, meaninglessness, built in bed, guff, position, office, nonsense, bunk bed, moorage, spot, situation, billet

4. berthverb

   provide with a berth

   Synonyms:
   moor, tie up, wharf

5. moor, berth, tie upverb

   secure in or as if in a berth or dock

   "tie up the boat"

   Synonyms:
   tie up, wharf, moor, truss, bind off, tie down, bind

6. moor, berth, wharfverb

   come into or dock at a wharf

   "the big ship wharfed in the evening"

   Synonyms:
   moor, wharf, tie up

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   • Provide

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1. berthnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Naut.) ship's station

2. berthnoun

   Synonyms:
   bed, place to sleep in

3. berthnoun

   Synonyms:
   situation, office, post, employment, place

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1. List of paraphrases for "berth":

   bunk, berthing, wharf, dock, dockside, mooring, berthage, docking, wetting, quai

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How to use berth in a sentence?

1. Cole Irvin:

   They’re fighting for what we’re fighting for, a postseason berth.

2. Krys Johnson:

   Stay with that buddy group to reduce your contacts and to ensure some social distancing between you and other people (people tend to give groups a wider berth than they do for individual people).

3. Dejounte Murray:

   I just want to win and I’m willing to do whatever it takes to win, but at the end of the day, the situation we’re in, the last option is getting that play-in berth and going to see what we can do to try to get in the playoffs.

4. Connor McDavid:

   I know everyone is excited in here, I don't think anyone feels out of it( the hunt for a playoff berth) by any means, i'm excited to play again. It feels like my first game all over again.

5. Julie Heckman:

   Approximately 30 percent of the consumer fireworks needed for this Independence Day either didn’t make it out of China, are sitting on ocean vessels in the Pacific Ocean waiting to berth at the ports, or they’ve been sitting at West Coast ports waiting to be put on the rail.