merchant ship

noun

Examples of merchant ship in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The individual success of Pyxis Ocean is encouraging news, but that’s just one of the 110,000-or-so merchant ships in the world. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2024 Based on a single chilling chapter from Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula, the film tells the terrifying story of the merchant ship Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo — fifty unmarked wooden crates — from Carpathia to London. Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2023 So far, the Biden administration has been trying to chip away at the ability of the Houthis to menace merchant ships and military vessels without killing large numbers of Houthi fighters and commanders, which could potentially unleash even more mayhem into a widening war. Helene Cooper, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2024 The militants have launched nearly 30 attacks on merchant ships in the region since November, linking their actions to the war in Gaza and Western support for Israel. Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024 Six hours later, the United States attacked four Houthi attack drones that the military’s Central Command said were about to launch and threaten merchant ships in the Red Sea. Helene Cooper, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2024 Much the way the colors of Liberia, Panama, and the Marshall Islands fly over nearly half the world’s merchant ships, Candidia started enticing satellite operators to register under its flag by charging them low fees and taxes and requiring very little disclosure of information. Khari Johnson, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024 Farther afield in the South China Sea, underwater searchers located the remains of the Montevideo Maru, a Japanese merchant ship torpedoed by an American submarine on July 1, 1942. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023 On Monday, the Transportation Department warned U.S. merchant ships to avoid the Red Sea until further notice. TIME, 18 Jan. 2024

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First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of merchant ship was in the 15th century

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