Armator

Quick meaning: Armator is a noun meaning (rare) A shipowner.

Meaning

(rare) A shipowner.

Example Sentences

Eleven children died during the forty-one day journey to Algiers as a consequence of the armators’ scrimping on costs.

For instance, a manufacturer who buys metals under a FOB specification is responsible for organizing the shipping but the armator is in charge of managing the shipping and holds the corresponding risk.

If the ſaid deſerters can only be arreſted after the departure of the ſhip, they ſhall be condemned to eight days confinement, to return the advances, and to pay to the captain, or the armators, the damages ariſing from their deſertion, if there are any; and ſhall make a campaign of three months in the ſhips of his majeſty, at two-thirds of pay.

Word Forms

• armators

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