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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 letters of marque /-ˈmɑrk/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Marque n.  Law 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.
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pri·va·teer n.
 1. An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque.
 2. The commander of a privateer.
    Kidd soon threw off the character of a privateer and became a pirate.   --Macaulay.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 letters of marque
      n : a license to a private citizen to seize property of another
          nation [syn: letter of marque, letter of mark and
          reprisal]