merchant seaman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˌmerchant ˈseaman noun [countable] BOTTWa sailor in the merchant navy 商船船员
Examples from the Corpus
merchant seaman• Meale, who began working life as a merchant seaman and was later an Aycliffe councillor, is unamused.• When he earned his law degree in 1933, he had already worked as a merchant seaman.• The 37-year-old merchant seaman killed Joyce after a night out ended in drunken violence.ˌmerchant ˈseaman nounChineseSyllable
Corpus the sailor merchant in navy a
merchant seaman
ˌmerchant ˈseaman
noun [countable]
a sailor in the merchant navy
ˌmerchant ˈseaman
noun [countable]a sailor in the merchant navy