A flag of a country under which a ship is registered in order to avoid financial charges or restrictive regulations in the owner's country.
方便旗(船主为逃避本国的收费或限制性措施而在他国注册后所挂的该国国旗)
Example sentencesExamples
They dumped Australian workers when they had the vessel reflagged under a flag of convenience.
My father owned some Liberian-flagged ships, Liberia being a flag of convenience.
So, exactly half of its vessels were registered under flags of convenience, avoiding taxes, paying a fraction of Canadian wage rates, etc.
The Cypriot flag was once a maritime flag of convenience, but a more stringent approach by the government in recent years has rid the country of the shady side of the shipping trade.
A Japanese tuna fisheries federation said it will link up with its Taiwan counterpart and other businesses to set up a body to combat damage done by tuna fishing boats sailing under a flag of convenience.
Definition of flag of convenience in US English:
flag of convenience
noun
A flag of a country under which a ship is registered in order to avoid financial charges or restrictive regulations in the owner's country.
方便旗(船主为逃避本国的收费或限制性措施而在他国注册后所挂的该国国旗)
Example sentencesExamples
So, exactly half of its vessels were registered under flags of convenience, avoiding taxes, paying a fraction of Canadian wage rates, etc.
They dumped Australian workers when they had the vessel reflagged under a flag of convenience.
The Cypriot flag was once a maritime flag of convenience, but a more stringent approach by the government in recent years has rid the country of the shady side of the shipping trade.
A Japanese tuna fisheries federation said it will link up with its Taiwan counterpart and other businesses to set up a body to combat damage done by tuna fishing boats sailing under a flag of convenience.
My father owned some Liberian-flagged ships, Liberia being a flag of convenience.