privateer Definition
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privateer
noun
- historical:
1. A privately owned ship engaged by a government to seize and plunder an enemy's ships in wartime.
2. The commander or a crew member of such a ship.
- Thesaurus: pirate, buccaneer, freebooter, corsair, sea-wolf, sea-rover.
- Form: privateersman (also)
