Noun: pan-pan
Sample Sentences
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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 below). [1996, John Mellor, Handling Troubles Afloat, page 179:]
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You can use the same outline for Pan Pan calls. [2005, Bob Armstrong, Getting Started in Powerboating, page 170:]
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If you transmit a Pan-Pan call, then find that you no longer require assistance, you must cancel the message. [2006, Elbert S. Maloney, Chapman Piloting & Seamanship, page 411:]
Nouns inflected like pan-pan
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French panne (“breakdown”), reduplicated. See: French Nouns '
panne'.