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Privateer Crossword Clue

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noun

• a pirate along the Barbary Coast

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

90%6 Seafaring thief
noun

• someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own

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

• a ship that is manned by pirates

verb

• copy illegally; of published material

• take arbitrarily or by force

90%6 One who attacks and steals from ships or other vehicles
noun

• 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

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New York Times16 Jun 1985 Down 57
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