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A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals.

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  1. n. A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals.
  2. n. a name given to a product or service
  3. A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals. Letters of marque, Letters of marque and reprisal, a license or extraordinary commission granted by a government to a private person to fit out a privateer or armed ship to cruise at sea and make prize of the enemy's ships and merchandise. The ship so commissioned is sometimes called a letter of marque.
  4. A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary ofa country, for the purpose of making reprisals. Letters of marque,Letters of marque and reprisal, a license or extraordinary commissiongranted by a government to a private person to fit out a privateer orarmed ship to cruise at sea and make prize of the enemy's ships andmerchandise. The ship so commissioned is sometimes called a letter ofmarque.
  5. n:100 n a name given to a product or service