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In some senses, pan-pan is marked as historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.
pan-pan
/pæn.pæn/
noun 2
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4VERB + PAN-PAN
make
PAN-PAN + NOUN
american, girls, gis, way
PREP.
on
ADV.
poignantly, then, then
Definitions
noun
1
A radio call indicating a minor emergency requiring some assistance, or priority in handling, but not endangering the safety of the vessel or those aboard.
It should be a relatively simple matter (particularly on a modern yacht) to teach almost anyone to heave-to, take the position from an electronic navigator, then make a PAN-PAN call on the radio (see below).
You can use the same outline for Pan Pan calls.
noun
1
A Japanese prostitute who catered to American GIs in post-WWII occupied Japan.
In his recent overview of occupied Japan, John Dower poignantly describes the "pan-pan girls" who offended conservatives with their willingness to trade sexual favors for the Americans' gifts and money.
Their fiction does, however, reflect specificiteis of post-Surrender society; the women work as maids and pan-pan, American GIs are ever-present, and shortages and disruptions are commonplace.
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It should be a relatively simple matter (particularly on a modern yacht) to teach almost anyone to heave-to, take the position from an electronic navigator, then make a PAN-PAN call on the radio (see
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You can use the same outline for Pan Pan calls.
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If you transmit a Pan-Pan call, then find that you no longer require assistance, you must cancel the message.
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In his recent overview of occupied Japan, John Dower poignantly describes the "pan-pan girls" who offended conservatives with their willingness to trade sexual favors for the Americans' gifts and mone
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Their fiction does, however, reflect specificiteis of post-Surrender society; the women work as maids and pan-pan, American GIs are ever-present, and shortages and disruptions are commonplace.
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...popular perceptions of the pan-pan has given way in Ōe's series to an androcentric censure that sees the native intellectual youth as the chief victim of occupation.
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