Movie theaters are losing more and more revenue due to internet piracy.
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Piracy
//ˈpaɪɹəsi//
Synonyms for "piracy" (18 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (4)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (5)
Related words (9)
Related word relations
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11 entriesrelated to
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Translations
109 translations across 45 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- seerowery noun (robbery at sea)
Arabic
2 entries- تَزْوِير noun (unauthorized duplication)
- قَرْصَنَة noun (robbery at sea)
Asturian
1 entries- piratería noun (robbery at sea)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- dəniz quldurluğu noun (robbery at sea)
- piratlıq noun (robbery at sea)
Belarusian
1 entries- піра́цтва noun (robbery at sea)
Bulgarian
2 entries- пиратство noun (robbery at sea)
- плагиатство noun (unauthorized duplication)
Catalan
2 entries- pirateria noun (robbery at sea)
- pirateria noun (unauthorized duplication)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 海盜行為 /海盗行为 noun (robbery at sea)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 海盜 /海盗 noun (robbery at sea)
- 海盜行為 /海盗行为 noun (robbery at sea)
- 盜版 /盗版 noun (unauthorized duplication)
- 著作權侵害 /著作权侵害 noun (unauthorized duplication)
Czech
1 entries- pirátství noun (robbery at sea)
Danish
4 entries- kapring noun (hijacking)
- pirateri noun (robbery at sea)
- piratkopiering noun (unauthorized duplication)
- sørøveri noun (robbery at sea)
Dutch
4 entries- etherpiraterij noun (unlicensed broadcasting)
- kaping noun (robbery at sea)
- kaping noun (hijacking)
- piraterij noun (robbery at sea)
Esperanto
1 entries- piratado noun (robbery at sea)
Finnish
4 entries- kaappaus noun (hijacking)
- merirosvous noun (robbery at sea)
- piraattiradiotoiminta noun (unlicensed broadcasting)
- piratismi noun (unauthorized duplication)
French
3 entries- piratage noun (robbery at sea)
- piratage noun (unauthorized duplication)
- piraterie noun (robbery at sea)
Galician
4 entries- pirataría noun (robbery at sea)
- pirataría noun (unauthorized duplication)
- piratería noun (robbery at sea)
- piratería noun (unauthorized duplication)
Georgian
4 entries- გამომცემლის უფლების დარღვევა noun (unauthorized duplication)
- კონტრაფაქცია noun (unauthorized duplication)
- მეკობრეობა noun (robbery at sea)
- პირატობა noun (unauthorized duplication)
German
4 entries- Piraterie noun (robbery at sea)
- Raubdruck noun (unauthorized duplication)
- Raubkopie noun (unauthorized duplication)
- Raubkopieren noun (unauthorized duplication)
Greek
4 entries- πειρατεία noun (robbery at sea)
- πειρατεία noun (hijacking)
- πειρατεία noun (unauthorized duplication)
- πειρατεία noun (unlicensed broadcasting)
Gujarati
1 entries- ચાંચિયાગીરી noun (robbery at sea)
Hebrew
4 entries- פִּירָטִיוּת noun (robbery at sea)
- פִּירָטִיוּת noun (hijacking)
- שֹׁד יָמִּי noun (robbery at sea)
- שוד ים noun (robbery at sea)
Hungarian
3 entries- eltérítés noun (hijacking)
- kalózkodás noun (robbery at sea)
- kalózkodás noun (unauthorized duplication)
Ido
1 entries- pirateso noun (robbery at sea)
Indonesian
1 entries- pembajakan noun (unauthorized duplication)
Italian
3 entries- pirateria noun (robbery at sea)
- pirateria noun (hijacking)
- pirateria noun (unauthorized duplication)
Japanese
4 entries- パイレーシ noun (robbery at sea)
- パイレーシ noun (unauthorized duplication)
- 偽版 海賊版 noun (unauthorized duplication)
- 海賊 noun (robbery at sea)
Korean
2 entries- 해적 행위 noun (robbery at sea)
- 해적질 noun (robbery at sea)
Latin
1 entries- pīrātica noun (robbery at sea)
Lithuanian
1 entries- piratavimas noun (robbery at sea)
Malay
1 entries- perlanunan noun (robbery at sea)
Norman
1 entries- pirat'tie noun (robbery at sea)
Norwegian
1 entries- kapring noun (hijacking)
Polish
2 entries- piractwo noun (robbery at sea)
- piractwo noun (unauthorized duplication)
Portuguese
2 entries- pirataria noun (robbery at sea)
- pirataria noun (unauthorized duplication)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਕਜ਼ਾਕੀ noun (robbery at sea)
Russian
4 entries- контрафа́кция noun (unauthorized duplication)
- наруше́ние а́вторского пра́ва noun (unauthorized duplication)
- пира́тская ко́пия noun (unauthorized duplication)
- пира́тство noun (robbery at sea)
Somali
1 entries- burcad badeed noun (robbery at sea)
Spanish
4 entries- falsificación noun (unauthorized duplication)
- piratería noun (robbery at sea)
- piratería noun (hijacking)
- piratería noun (unauthorized duplication)
Swahili
2 entries- uharamia noun (robbery at sea)
- uharamia noun (hijacking)
Swedish
2 entries- piratkopiering noun (unauthorized duplication)
- sjöröveri noun (robbery at sea)
Tagalog
2 entries- pamimirata noun (robbery at sea)
- pamimirata noun (unauthorized duplication)
Tamil
1 entries- கடற்கொள்ளை noun (robbery at sea)
Thai
1 entries- โจรกรรม noun (robbery at sea)
Turkish
3 entries- korsan yayın noun (unlicensed broadcasting)
- korsanlık noun (robbery at sea)
- korsanlık noun (unauthorized duplication)
Ukrainian
2 entries- піра́тство noun (unauthorized duplication)
- піратство noun (robbery at sea)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
He has in his possession films that were never distributed to cinemas to protect them against piracy.
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SOPA is an acronym for the Stop Online Piracy Act.
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Piracy isn't killing music.
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