marque

Plural: marques

Noun

• A letter of reprisal, granting permission to privateers to attack enemy ships.
• a name given to a product or service
• A brand of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car.
• A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals or privateering; the document recording this license.
• A ship commissioned for making captures.

Examples

• He felt he had to issue a MARQUE against his opponent’s constant blocking plays.

Synonyms

brand, brand name, trade name, letter of marque, letter of marque and reprisal, make