privateering

privateering, n. Int’l law. The practice of arming privately owned merchant ships for the purpose of attacking enemy trading ships. • Before the practice was outlawed, governments commissioned privateers by issuing letters of marque to their merchant fleets. Privateering was prohibited by the Declaration of Paris Concerning Naval Warfare of 1856, which has been observed by nearly all nations since that time. — privateer, vb.

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译者Jeffrey，毕业于国内一流的高级翻译学院，擅长翻译各种与首次公开发行/其他股权或债务发行相关的法律文件。