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UK
/pɹˌaɪvətˈiə/
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NOUN
- a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation
- an officer or crew member of a privateer
How To Use privateer In A Sentence
- This could hardly be wondered at, for taking into consideration the "natty" appearance of the privateer, the lubberly way in which she was sailed, standing so far off wind when she ought to have been close to it if she were sailing her course, was enough to excite anybody's suspicions. True To His Colors
- The French privateer Hippolyte de Bouchard, and his henchman, William Evans, who returned much later as the Purple Pirate! THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
- However, American neutral shipping suffered grievous losses at the hands of the Royal Navy and French privateers.
- The French privateer Hippolyte de Bouchard, and his henchman, William Evans, who returned much later as the Purple Pirate! THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
- Half a page of ships captured by Rebel privateers.
- Jeannette, 21, is no stranger to racing Panoz cars, having driven for Panoz Motor Sports in 2002 and for the privateer JML Team Panoz in 2003.
- Smuggling, privateering, and legal trade with overseas partners only partially offset the drastic trade reductions with Britain.
- At daylight the next morning some of the men bent the sails and rove the rigging of the privateer, while the others were cutting a good load of wood to ballast her.
- The executive of the Scottish Parliament is handing another £100 million of public money over to privateers to ensure the privatisation of Glasgow's council housing goes ahead.
- Naval Privateers flew the Liberty Tree as their standard, while the Navy itself adopted the Gadsden flag, with its famous rattlesnake.