privateer

noun

pri·va·teer | \ ˌprī-və-ˈtir

Definition of privateer

: an armed private ship licensed to attack enemy shipping also : a sailor on such a ship

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Not surprisingly, the privateers simply continued their old ways, now as freelancers. — Rinker Buck, WSJ, "‘Black Flags, Blue Waters’ Review: To Live and Die a Pirate King," 26 Sep. 2018 While the manufacturers are the heart of race weekend, the privateers are the soul. — Mitchell Nicholson, Popular Mechanics, "The Great American Motorcycle Racing Revival," 7 Sep. 2018 Factory teams will come and go, but a sports car series like IMSA lives and dies by its privateers. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, "The Petit Le Mans: More proof we’re in a golden age for sportscar racing," 18 Oct. 2018 El Lago sheltered French pirate and privateer Jean Lafitte in the early 19th century. — Yvette Orozco, Houston Chronicle, "How well do you know Bay Area history?," 7 June 2018 All seven privateer outfits from the MotoGP paddock will enter the new series in 2019. — Jonathan Hawkins, CNN, "From a roar to a whirr -- MotoGP goes electric," 14 June 2018 The fourth annual Pirates Ashore at the Mayflower Society House and around Plymouth features reenactors portraying colonists and privateers, cannon fire, a pirate encampment, a sword fight, and even a murder trial. — BostonGlobe.com, "Five things to do around Boston, May 14-20," 11 May 2018 That was five seconds faster than the non-hybrid, privateer P1 cars that make up the rest of the class for the Super Season and four seconds faster than the last time hybrid P1 cars tested at Paul Ricard. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, "Faster than an F1 car: Porsche is breaking records with the 919 Hybrid," 9 Apr. 2018 Many see Sheikh Amoudi less as a beneficent local son than a Saudi privateer. — Danny Hakim And Ben Hubbard, New York Times, "He Owns Much of Ethiopia. The Saudis Won’t Say Where They’re Hiding Him.," 16 Mar. 2018

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