单词 | mercantile marine |
释义 | > as lemmasmercantile marine 3. The collective shipping, fleet, navy, or naval service of a country; seagoing vessels collectively, esp. with reference to nationality or class, as in mercantile marine (now historical) or merchant marine. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > collectively navya1375 navire1429 vessel1436 navinc1480 navigation?1589 shipping1591 water carriage1612 tonnage1633 craft1644 marine1669 1669 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 455 The well-regulating of all things belonging to the marine. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) The Marine, the whole Body of a Navy or Fleet; as The Officers of the Marine. 1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies iv. 67 All these vessels that formed the military marine of Bombay were chiefly manned with English. 1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 47 What naval force, what naval works, and what naval stores..are necessary to keep our marine in a condition commensurate to its great ends. 1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain II. xiii. 285 To this inconsiderable number of vessels is the present war marine of Spain reduced. 1849 R. Cobden Speeches 18 France knew that America had the largest mercantile marine. 1882 D. A. Wells (title) Our merchant marine. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 254/1 The glory won at Salamis was paid for by the loss of her [sc. Aegina] trade and the decay of her marine. 1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle ix. 117 The German mercantile marine was laid on ice till the end of the war. 1966 Listener 19 May 710/1 From this morning, Britain's merchant marine is immobilized. 1985 R. Huntford Shackleton viii. 72 Having once escaped, he was not going back to the mercantile marine. 1991 Bostonia June 47/3 To qualify for the rank of Chief Engineer of the Merchant Marine one had to pass several..exams. mercantile marine mercantile marine n. shipping employed in commercial as opposed to naval operations; the merchant navy. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > [noun] > fleet of mercantile marine1778 merchant navy1808 merchant marine1839 1778 Kentish Gaz. 7 Oct. They add, that the English privateers ruin the mercantile marine of France, by taking a great number of ships. 1829 J. Marshall (title) A statement of the various proceedings prior and subsequent to the appointment of a Committee, in 1824, to inquire into the mode of classing the Mercantile Marine at Lloyd's. 1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle ix. 117 The German mercantile marine was laid on ice till the end of the war. 1999 Encycl. Brit. Online (Version 99.1) at Brostrom Brostrom is regarded as the father of the modern Swedish mercantile marine. < as lemmas |
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