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pratique

American  
[pra-teek, prat-ik, pra-teek] / præˈtik, ˈpræt ɪk, praˈtik /

noun

  1. license or permission to use a port, given to a ship after quarantine or on showing a clean bill of health.


pratique British  
/ præˈtiːk, ˈprætiːk /

noun

  1. formal permission given to a vessel to use a foreign port upon satisfying the requirements of local health authorities

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of pratique

1600–10; < French: practice < Medieval Latin practica. See practice

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He will no longer be eligible to apply for radio pratique.''

From Time Magazine Archive

The Hansa under Captain Hermann Lehmann was denied future privileges of radio pratique.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fact is also, your answer will satisfy only that handful of "experts" who rate artistic pratique through some strange omniscient power to see Art in limp watches and nauseating distortions of the commonplace.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hereafter most passenger ships bound for New York may avoid all delay at Quarantine by taking advantage of "radio pratique."

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They might not come on board; neither might we land, or not without danger of offence; the king giving pratique in person.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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