单词 | navicert |
释义 | navicertn. now historical. A British consular certificate granted to a neutral ship in wartime testifying that its cargo is correctly described in the manifest. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > [noun] > other certificates coast-cocket1776 navicert1923 1923 C. E. Fayle Seaborne Trade II. xx. 304 The ‘Navicert System’, as it was called, from the code word employed, became, in fact, one of the chief instruments in the prevention of enemy trade. 1940 R. W. B. Clarke Britain's Blockade 10 A plan is in operation for issuing compulsory navicerts to all ships coming to Europe and North Africa. 1967 D. Busk Craft of Diplomacy ii. 46 During the last war..the British issued what were called ‘navicerts’. These guaranteed shippers that ‘clean’ items of cargo would not be confiscated by the Royal Navy as contraband destined for the enemy. 1996 C. Leitz Econ. Relations between Nazi Germany & Franco's Spain 120 (note) The Franco-British naval blockade commenced on 8 Sept. 1939 and Britain introduced the navicert system on 1 Dec. Derivatives ˈnavicerted adj. rare authorized by a navicert. ΚΠ 1940 Times 21 Mar. 5/5 On Tuesday a vessel came through with no fewer than 200 navicerted items of cargo. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). navicertv. rare. transitive. To authorize with a navicert. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > issue (ship) with papers [verb (transitive)] > issue with certificate navicert1941 1941 Times 2 Apr. 3/5 After the British Government had agreed to navicert two gift cargoes of flour. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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