privateering

noun

Definition of privateeringnext
as in robbery

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  1. robbery
  2. piracy
  3. plunder
Noun
  • Garrido lives in Ozone Park, about four miles from where the robbery took place.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 20 Dec. 2024
  • According to police, the woman claimed that the man bound her hands and used a pair of scissors to threaten her during the robbery.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of robbery
Noun
  • Yet online piracy was far more serious, moving at unprecedented speed.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The ticket also includes a clause that prevents the company from being held liable for anything that happens to you owing to force majeure, like an unexpected storm or illness, piracy, war, revolution, extortion, terrorist action or threat, hijacking, or bombing.
    Bridget Read, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of piracy
Noun
  • Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.
    Percy Zvomuya, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Major museums in the West devoted to the presentation and preservation of art objects have fitfully begun acknowledging their ties to histories of violence and plunder.
    Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of plunder
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“Privateering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/privateering. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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