Plunderer
noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who plunders or pillages.
- 2 someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) wordnet
Example
More examples"The privateer is a licensed, the pirate an unlicensed, plunderer; but plunder, not patriotism, being, as a rule, the motive of the former, it is not perhaps surprising that, failing legitimate prey, he has sometimes adopted, to a great extent, the tactics of the latter."
Etymology
From plunder + -er.
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