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merchant marinenoun North American Another term for merchant navy.His real education began when he joined the merchant marine and took a job in a freighter's engine room....- The future's merchant marine ship looked like a merchant marine ship and the talk was pay and work conditions.
- Such an oligarchy had been predisposed to heavy spending on the navy, producing a fleet strong enough to defend a merchant marine that carried a large proportion of the world's overseas trade.
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