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merchant seaman
noun
- a seaman who works on a merchant vessel.
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Origin of merchant seaman1
Example Sentences
He eventually enlisted in the Marine Corps and was a merchant seaman before pursuing a career in journalism, according to Tucker Carlson’s post.
And in a wayfaring six-decade career, he was a merchant seaman, a jazz pianist, a law student, a television news anchor, a familiar character on network sitcoms, an Emmy-winning documentarian, a good will ambassador to China, a longtime expatriate in Europe — and a reported dead man; in 2015, rumors that he had been killed were mistaken.
By then, Ona had made plans to marry John Staines, a free black man and merchant seaman.
Her father was a railway signalman, union official and former merchant seaman who claimed that her pram was crammed full of Labour literature during the campaign that led to Labour's 1945 landslide election victory.
The oldest: merchant seaman Thomas Hardwyre Milligan, 64.
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