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.

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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

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Etymology

Origin of pratique

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

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

pratique

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

This sanitary permission to deal with people ashore maritime men call "pratique."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the foul-bill of health, the signal of a moral quarantine, interminable and hopeless of pratique.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various