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merchant marine

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A nation's commercial ships.
  • noun The personnel of a nation's commercial ships.
  • noun A merchant mariner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The ships owned by nationals of a particular country that are engaged in civilian commerce; also, the personnel operating those vessels. Distinguished from the navy, which contains the vessels of war.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Ships and crews dedicated to commercial, rather than military, purposes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry
  • noun the crew of a merchant vessel

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