FREEBOOTER Synonyms

• someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

• someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

• a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management

• an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band

• someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

• live like a buccaneer

• a pirate along the Barbary Coast

• a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction)

• someone who attacks in search of booty

• an officer or crew member of a privateer

• a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation

• someone who leads a wandering unsettled life

• an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement

• an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)

• someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

• a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes

• (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches

• obstruct deliberately by delaying

• someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

• a person hired to fight for another country than their own

• marked by materialism

• serving for wages in a foreign army

• profit oriented

• someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

• a candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning

• someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

• someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence

• an airfoil mounted on the rear of a car to reduce lift at high speeds

• a hinged airfoil on the upper surface of an aircraft wing that is raised to reduce lift and increase drag