Letters Of Marque

Definition: Letters Of Marque

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

Synonyms within Context: Letters Of Marque

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Stealing	Piracy, privateering, buccaneering; license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Usage: Letters Of Marque

Domain	Title
Books	Letters of Marque (Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling) (reference) (more book examples)
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Historic Usage: Letters Of Marque

Author	Date	Quotation
US Constitution	1791	Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression: Letters Of Marque

Expression using "letters of marque": Letters of marque and reprisal. Additional references.
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Modern Translation: Letters Of Marque

Language		Translations for "letters of marque"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		lettre de marque. (various references)

Pig Latin		etterslay ofay arquemay

Turkish		korsanlık fermanı. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Letters Of Marque

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-f-l-m-o-q-r-r-s-t-t-u"
	-3 letters: reformulates.
	-4 letters: farmerettes, letterforms, quarrelsome, reformulate, tetramerous.
	-5 letters: aerometers, farmerette, flatterers, flutterers, formatters, formulates, letterform, ratemeters, reformates, remorseful, rotameters.
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