Privateer Definition

prīvə-tîr
privateers
noun
privateers
A privately owned and manned armed ship commissioned by a government in a war to attack and capture enemy ships, esp. merchant ships.
Webster's New World
A commander or crew member of a privateer.
Webster's New World
(motor racing) A private individual entrant into a race or competition who does not have the backing of a large, professional team.
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verb
privateers
To sail as a privateer.
Webster's New World

To function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy.

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Singular:
privateer
Plural:
privateers

Origin of Privateer

Privateer Sentence Examples

  • It was captured and plundered in 1 595 by the English privateer James Lancaster.

  • On his voyage he was captured by a French privateer.

  • On the way there they captured in the port of Achin a French privateer ready to cruise in the South China Sea.

  • Among his other works are The Phantom Ship (1839); A Diary in America (1839); 011a Podrida (1840), a collection of miscellaneous papers; Poor Jack (1840); Joseph Rushbrook (1841); Percival Keene (1842); Monsieur Violet (1842); The Privateer's Man (1844); The Mission, or Scenes in Africa (1845); The Little Savage (1848-1849), published posthumously; and Valerie, not completed (1849).

  • The occupation of Monterey for a few hours by a Buenos Aires privateer (1818) was the only incident of actual war that California saw in all these years; and it, in truth, was a ridiculous episode, fit introduction to the bloodless play-wars, soon to be inaugurated in Californian politics.

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