three-mile limit

1. 1.

   the limit of a nation's territorial waters

   Broaderlimit

Questions about three-mile limit

What does three-mile limit mean?

three-mile limit means "the limit of a nation's territorial waters".

Is three-mile limit a common word?

three-mile limit 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.