Freebooters - English meaning

noun

A person who enjoys or seeks adventure.

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Every year adventurers attempt the canol trail using all manner of conveyances

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A robber or outlaw belonging to a gang and typically operating in an isolated or lawless area.

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The bandit produced a weapon and demanded money

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An armed thief, esp. (in older use) one who attacks people while they are traveling

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Bandits attacked the travelers just outside of town.

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A pirate, originally one operating in the caribbean.

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The marauding buccaneers who used to terrorize the mediterranean coasts

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A business person who is determined to succeed even if this involves taking big risks

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These mercantile buccaneers are always wildly in favour of the free market.

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A pirate.

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Reputations spread through any community, and the pirates and corsairs knew who they wanted to work…

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A pirate (= person who sails in a ship and attacks other ships in order to steal from them), especially one given permission by a government to attack enemy ships in the 16th - 18th centuries in the southern mediterranean

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An action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures.

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The bill was defeated by a senate filibuster in june

verb

Act in an obstructive manner in a legislative assembly, especially by speaking at inordinate length.

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He was one of four tories who filibustered for more than 30 minutes each to derail the free parking…

noun

(in a legislature) a way of preventing a law from being passed by using the rules or making long speeches to delay voting on it

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[ i ] the senator threatened to filibuster if jobs in his state were not protected.

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A person who marauds; a raider.

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A band of english marauders were surprised and overcome

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A person or animal that goes from one place to another looking for people to kill or things to steal or destroy

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A pirate.

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The marooners who escaped carried their wanton ravages to other parts of the world.

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A rogue or scoundrel.

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The words typically used in english translation, ‘rogue,’ ‘picaroon,’ ‘knave,’ etc., do not have th…

noun

A person who attacks and robs ships at sea.

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In the three weeks leading up to the attack, sixteen container ships had been boarded by pirates

verb

Use or reproduce (another's work) for profit without permission, usually in contravention of patent or copyright.

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His latest album has been pirated and downloaded so many times since its release that he's lost $10…

verb

Someone who robs and plunders at sea

phrase

Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

noun

Someone who steals or removes things, especially in a violent or severe way

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He was an art dealer and one of the third reich's most notorious art plunderers., many archaeologis…

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An armed ship owned and crewed by private individuals holding a government commission and authorized for use in war, especially in the capture of merchant shipping.

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She was captured by a french 44-gun privateer

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A person who attacks an enemy in their territory; a marauder.

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Scandinavian raiders put down their roots in cumbria

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→  corporate raider

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Pennsylvania's tough anti-takeover law is designed to prevent raiders from harming shareholders.

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→  corporate raider

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Pennsylvania's tough anti-takeover law is designed to prevent raiders from harming shareholders.

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A person who commits robbery.

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In one version the bandits and their boss join the imperial forces and from then on fight robbers a…

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A person who takes money or property illegally

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A person who spends their time wandering.

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They became rovers who departed further and further from civilization

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A pirate.

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A person or machine that makes roves of fibre.

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A person who engages in daring and romantic adventures with bravado or flamboyance.

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He was an explorer and something of a swashbuckler

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Someone who enjoys and looks for dangerous and exciting experiences, especially someone in the past such as a pirate or other person who fights with a sword

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In pirates of the caribbean, depp swaggered around as an unwashed swashbuckler., cyrano is more lik…