Usually means: State-sanctioned piracy for profit.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. privateering: Merriam-Webster
  2. privateering: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. privateering: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Privateering, privateering: Wordnik
  5. privateering: Wiktionary
  6. Privateering, privateering: Dictionary.com
  7. Privateering (album), Privateering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Privateering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. privateering: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Privateering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. privateering: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Privateering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. privateering: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. privateering: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (privateering)

▸ noun:  The operations of a privateer, attacking and looting enemy ships under the auspices of one's own government.

Similar:
privateersman, corsair, private ship, armed merchantman, boarding party, hydrarchy, letter of marque, Privy Purse, pursership, press, more...

Opposite:
piracy, commerce, trade, legal raiding

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Similar:
privateersman, corsair, private ship, armed merchantman, boarding party, hydrarchy, letter of marque, Privy Purse, pursership, press, more...

Opposite:
piracy, commerce, trade, legal raiding



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