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letters of marque
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun letters of marque has 1 sense
- letters of marque(n = noun.communication) letter of mark and reprisal, letter of marque - a license to a private citizen to seize property of another nation; Array is a kind of licence, license, permit
THESAURUS
letters of marque
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, letters credential, letters of request, letters overt, letters patent, letters rogatory, love letter, monitory, newsletter, nixie, open letter, pastoral letter, piracy, poison-pen letter, privateering, round robin, skyjackingROGET THESAURUS
letters of marque
Stealing
N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.
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