Plunderer

noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who plunders or pillages.
  2. 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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