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letters of marque

noun

1 letters of marque

A license to a private citizen to seize property of another nation.

synonyms: letter of mark and reprisal, letter of marque.

Roget 791: stealing etc. v.; theft, thievery, latrociny, direption; abstraction, appropriation; plagiary, plagiarism; autoplagiarism; latrocinium.    spoliation, ... show more

Dutch: kaperbrief


Moby thesaurus: Pastoral Epistle, aerogram, air letter, air piracy, airgraph, airplane hijacking, billet-doux, buccaneering, bull, chain letter, dead letter, dimissorial, dimissory letter, drop letter, encyclical, fan letter, form letter, freebooting, letter of credit, letter of introduction ... show more.

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