freedom of the seas

1. 1.

   the right of merchant ships to travel freely in international waters

   Broaderfreedom

Questions about freedom of the seas

What does freedom of the seas mean?

freedom of the seas means "the right of merchant ships to travel freely in international waters".

Is freedom of the seas a common word?

freedom of the seas is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.