Marauders - English meaning

noun

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 member of a gang that ambushes and robs people in forests and mountains.

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This was a reference to the place's reputation in the past as a dangerous spot for highwaymen and b…

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A thief with a weapon, especially one of a group living in the countryside and stealing from people travelling through the area

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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 warrior or raider from the scottish highlands.

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But despite the commanders, the dukes, marquises knights and princes it is the common cateran who h…

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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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A pirate or lawless adventurer.

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Powerful merchant companies drove the process forward, and on the outermost fringe or cutting edge …

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A man, typically on horseback, who held up travellers at gunpoint in order to rob them.

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Eighteenth century playwrights and novelists often made their hero a criminal, a highwayman or conf…

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In the past, a man on a horse and carrying a gun who stopped people travelling on public roads and stole from them

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A person who steals goods, typically during a war or riot.

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Last summer's riots saw thousands of businesses ransacked by looters

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Someone, usually one of a large number of people during a violent event, who steals from shops and houses

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Looters ransacked shops and set fire to cars., the museum galleries were stripped of artifacts by l…

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A person who lived by plundering property in the scottish borders during the 17th century.

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The union of the crowns in 1603 largely brought about an end to such activities, though mosstrooper…

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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…

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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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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 rounds up and steals cattle, horses, or sheep.

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The cattle rustlers stole over 700 cattle

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Someone who steals cattle, horses, etc., from a farm or ranch

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Some rustlers had made off with half of their horses during the night.