Usually means: Registration under lenient foreign regulations.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word flag of convenience:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. flag of convenience: Merriam-Webster
  2. flag of convenience: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flag of convenience: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flag of convenience: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flag of convenience: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. flag of convenience: Wiktionary
  7. flag of convenience: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. flag of convenience: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. flag of convenience: Dictionary.com
  10. Flag of Convenience (band), Flag of Convenience, Flag of convenience (business), Flag of convenience: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. flag of convenience: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. flag of convenience: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. FLAG OF CONVENIENCE (FOC): Accounting Glossary
  3. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flag of convenience: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Flag of Convenience: Latitude Mexico

Definitions from Wiktionary (flag of convenience)

noun:  (figuratively) Registration of a ship in a country chosen for its low taxes, permissive regulations, etc.
noun:  (literally) The flag flown by a ship so registered (corresponding to the country of registration).
noun:  (business, by extension) Use of a particular location or jurisdiction as one's nominal base of operations in order to take advantage of favorable laws and regulations or to avoid restrictions on one's operations.

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