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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Privateer \Pri`va*teer"\ (pr[imac]`v[.a]*t[=e]r"), n. [From Private.]
An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque.
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The commander of a privateer.
Kidd soon threw off the character of a privateer and became a pirate.
--Macaulay.
Privateer \Pri`va*teer"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Privateered (pr[imac]`v[.a]*t[=e]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Privateering.] To cruise in a privateer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 An unethical individual or group acting covertly with enabling, usually bribed, accomplices inside government to destroy a government’s ability to carry out some aspect of its moral mission of protection and empowerment, by transferring critical moral functions along with public funds. Privateers make considerable profits for doing these civic tasks without any public accountability. Examples include: military functions; intelligence functions; monitoring food, drug, and product safety; interrogating prisoners; disaster relief; and educating the public. 2 (context nautical English) A privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo. 3 An officer or any other member of the crew of such a ship. 4 (context motor racing English) A private individual entrant into a race or competition who does not have the backing of a large, professional team. vb. 1 To undermine government’s moral mission to care for its citizens and to covertly steal public funds. 2 To function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy.
WordNet
n. an officer or crew member of a privateer [syn: privateersman]
a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation
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Wikipedia
A privateer was a private person or ship that engaged in maritime warfare under a commission of war. The commission (also known as a letter of marque) empowered the person to carry on all forms of hostility permissible at sea by the usages of war, including attacking foreign vessels during wartime and taking them as prizes. Captured ships were subject to condemnation and sale under prize law, with the proceeds divided between the privateer sponsors, shipowners, captains and crew. A percentage share usually went to the issuer of the commission. Since robbery under arms was common to seaborne trade, all merchant ships were already armed. During war, naval resources were auxiliary to operations on land so privateering was a way of subsidizing state power by mobilizing armed ships and sailors.
In motorsport, a privateer is usually an entrant into a racing event that is not directly supported by an automobile manufacturer. Privateers teams are often found competing in rally and circuit racing events, and often include competitors who build and maintain their own vehicles. In previous Formula One seasons, privately owned teams would race using the chassis of another team or constructor in preference to building their own car; the Concorde Agreement now prohibits this practice. Increasingly the term is being used in an F1 context to refer to teams who are not at least part-owned by large corporations, such as Williams F1.
Many privateer entrants compete for the enjoyment of the sport, and are not paid to be racing drivers.
Privateer is the second album by British guitarist Tim Renwick, only available on Audio License, released in 2007 as the follow-up to his 1980s Tim Renwick album.
A collection of instrumental folk/jazz/rock pieces, it features all instruments played by Renwick himself, with various guest musicians.
A privateer is a pirate operating on behalf of a government.
Privateer may also refer to:
- Privateer (motorsport), a competitor in motorsports who does not have manufacturer support
- PB4Y Privateer, a naval version of the B-24 Liberator bomber
- Wing Commander: Privateer and its expansion pack Privateer: Righteous Fire, a 1993 video game
- "Privateers" (The West Wing), a 2003 episode of The West Wing TV series
- New Orleans Privateers, sports teams at the University of New Orleans
- Privateer Press, publisher of tabletop role-playing games
- USS Privateer (SP-179), later YP-179, a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1930
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Privateering (album), a 2012 album by Mark Knopfler
- Privateering, a track on the album, also released as a single.
- Privateer (album), a 2007 album by Tim Renwick
- Privateer, South Carolina
- Pirateer, a board game
Usage examples of "privateer".
Cowboy turns his own radar off to discourage homing missiles and navigates on his visual sensors alone, his mind making lightning decisions, neurotransmitters clattering against his headswitches like hail, the interface encompassing the whole flashing universe, the panzer and its systems, the corn thundering under the armored skirts, the blithering chaff, the two hostile privateers burning out of the night.
The smartest thing for the privateer to do is to keep the panzer in sight and guide others in without risking itself.
Young Genet had been dispatched to America with instructions to rouse American support for France, spread the principles of the French Revolution, and encourage privateering against British shipping by American seamen.
I gave him all the information he required, and he asked me whether I should like to return to privateering, or to go as mate of a vessel bound to the coast of Africa.
The point to which I refer is, that I have come to a conviction that privateering is not a lawful or honourable profession, and with these feelings I should wish to resign the command of the schooner which you have had the kindness to give me.
You know that I did give up privateering at one time, because I was shocked at the excesses to which I was a party.
Since that his capital has been chiefly employed in privateering, which, if not so brutal and disgraceful, is certainly nearly as demoralising.
There is an excitement about the privateering which has become almost necessary to him, and he cares little about the remainder of his speculations.
I do not think, if he finds that he has to choose between your leaving him and his leaving oil privateering, he will hesitate in relinquishing the latter.
I fear your privateering account current will not be very favourable, when balanced, as it will be in a few days, notwithstanding this cargo of wares just arrived.
So I told him that as he could not, from scruples of conscience, join me in privateering, of course his scruples of conscience could not allow him to keep the books, and I dismissed him.
I have not the scruples which you have relative to privateering, but still I respect the conscientious scruples of others.
As her father recovered, she told Philip that he had expressed himself very strongly as to his conduct towards me, and had acknowledged that I was right in my scruples, and that he was astonished that he had not viewed privateering in the same light that I did.
I told him it was as bad as privateering, for in either case he sends people out to sacrifice their lives, that he may gain more money.
It invited us in 1856 to accede to the declaration of the Congress of Paris, of which body Great Britain was herself a member, abolishing privateering everywhere in all cases and forever.