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		Definition of house flag in English: house flagnoun A flag indicating the company that a ship belongs to.  Example sentencesExamples -  Within New Zealand, the New Zealand Flag takes precedence over all other national flags and house flags.
 -  In 1935 she was bought by ‘the flying bug line ‘, the Alexander Shipping Line, which used a busy bee on its blue house flag.’
 -  The National Maritime Museum has over 1000 flags including two large collections of house flags, used to identify shipping lines, or owners of vessels.
 -  The website disclaimer says that most of the companies whose house flags are shown there are gone out of business.
 -  The house flag is a point of pride for the crew and a distinguishing characteristic for the ship.
 
    Definition of house flag in US English: house flagnoun A flag indicating the company that a ship belongs to.  Example sentencesExamples -  In 1935 she was bought by ‘the flying bug line ‘, the Alexander Shipping Line, which used a busy bee on its blue house flag.’
 -  The website disclaimer says that most of the companies whose house flags are shown there are gone out of business.
 -  Within New Zealand, the New Zealand Flag takes precedence over all other national flags and house flags.
 -  The National Maritime Museum has over 1000 flags including two large collections of house flags, used to identify shipping lines, or owners of vessels.
 -  The house flag is a point of pride for the crew and a distinguishing characteristic for the ship.
 
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