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commerce destroyer
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English
Noun
commerce destroyer (plural commerce destroyers)
- (military, nautical, dated or historical) A fast, unarmoured, lightly armed naval vessel designed to capture or destroy the enemy's merchant ships.
References
- “commerce destroyer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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