letters of marque

1. 1.

   a license to a private citizen to seize property of another nation

   Synonymsletter of marqueletter of mark and reprisal

   Broaderlicense

Questions about letters of marque

What does letters of marque mean?

letters of marque means "a license to a private citizen to seize property of another nation".

What is another word for letters of marque?

Close synonyms include letter of marque, letter of mark and reprisal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is letters of marque a common word?

letters of marque 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.