Meaning

3 senses

  1. Synonym of merchant navy: a fleet of commercial vessels.

  2. Synonym of merchant ship: a single vessel in such a fleet.

    the crew of a merchant vessel

  3. (nonstandard, proscribed)Synonym of merchant mariner: a sailor in such a fleet.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Algeria needs to develop its merchant marine.

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Translations

2 languages

Forms

plural: merchant marines
Singularmerchant marine
Pluralmerchant marines

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
merchant navymerchant shipmerchant mariner
Close in meaning
  • conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry:shippingcargo shipsmerchant vessels

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
merchandiseB2merchantB1mercifulmercilessmercilesslymercury

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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