merchant ship
noun [C]Definition
› TRANSPORT a ship used for trading rather than for military purposes: The submarine struck a Norwegian merchant ship in the western Mediterranean Sea.
merchant shipping noun [U] (Definition of merchant ship noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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