privateers in English

noun
1
an armed ship owned and officered by private individuals holding a government commission and authorized for use in war, especially in the capture of enemy merchant shipping.
The US navy also took 50 merchant ships, while privateers took a further 450.
verb
1
engage in the activities of a privateer.
noun
    privateersman

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1. The wolf and fox are both privateers. 

2. Learn more about the difference between Buccaneers, privateers, and …

3. Half a page of ships captured by Rebel privateers.

4. A Corsair is a privateer or pirate, especially: Barbary Corsair, Ottoman and Berber pirates and privateers operating from North Africa; French Corsairs, privateers operating on behalf of the French crown; Look up Corsair in Wiktionary, the free dictionary

5. Some isolated attacks on these shipments took place in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea by English and Dutch pirates and privateers.

6. Ohio Bushwacks Public Education In a bald-faced attempt to snatch the Worst Sonsabitches In State Government award away from other contenders, Ohio's legislature used swift maneuvering and slick lawmaker tricks to help their Department of Education move forward in the process of giving public education away to privateers .

7. The Corries, Category: Artist, Albums: The Compact Collection, The Dawning of the Day, Barrett's Privateers, Flower Of Scotland, Live from Scotland Volume 3, Top Tracks: Flower Of Scotland, The Skye Boat Song, Medley: Loch Lomond:Farewel to the Creeks, Will Ye Go Lassie Go, The Massacre Of Glencoe, Biography: The traditional music of Scotland was preserved in the 1960s and '70s by the Corries

8. Queen Anne's Revenge was an early-18th-century ship, most famously used as a flagship by Edward Teach, better known by his nickname Blackbeard.Although the date and place of the ship's construction are uncertain, it was originally believed she was built for merchant service in Bristol, England in 1710 and named Concord, later captured by French privateers and renamed La Concorde.

9. The Barbary pirates (or, more accurately, Barbary privateers) operated out of four North African bases—Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and various ports in Morocco—between the 16th and 19th centuries.They terrorized seafaring traders in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, "sometimes," in the words of John Biddulph's 1907 history of piracy, "venturing into the mouth of the …