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charter party

(plural charter parties) (also charterparty)
 
 
noun [C] TRANSPORT

Definition

a document recording an agreement between a ship owner and someone who rents all or part of the ship for a particular voyage or period of time
(Definition of charter party noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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