Privateer

//ˌpɹaɪ.vəˈtɪɚ//

Synonyms for "privateer" (60 found)

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Translations

43 translations across 20 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • капер noun (privately owned warship)

Catalan

2 entries
  • corsari noun (privately owned warship)
  • corsari noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 私掠者 noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)
  • 私掠船 noun (privately owned warship)

Danish

4 entries
  • kaper noun (privately owned warship)
  • kaper noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)
  • kaperkaptajn noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)
  • kaperskib noun (privately owned warship)

Dutch

3 entries
  • kaapschip noun (privately owned warship)
  • kaper noun (privately owned warship)
  • kaper noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)

Finnish

3 entries
  • kaappari noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)
  • kaapparilaiva noun (privately owned warship)
  • yksityiskuski noun (motor racing: private individual entrant)

French

2 entries
  • corsaire noun (privately owned warship)
  • corsaire noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)

German

2 entries
  • Freibeuter noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)
  • Kaperschiff noun (privately owned warship)

Hebrew

4 entries
  • פְּרִיבָטִיר noun (privately owned warship)
  • פְּרִיבָטִיר noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)
  • קוֹרְסָר noun (privately owned warship)
  • קוֹרְסָר noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • kapari noun (privately owned warship)

Ido

2 entries
  • korsaro noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)
  • korsaronavo noun (privately owned warship)

Italian

2 entries
  • corsaro noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)
  • nave corsara noun (privately owned warship)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 私掠船 noun (privately owned warship)

Korean

1 entries
  • 사략선 noun (privately owned warship)

Norman

1 entries
  • cap'taine à la course noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • corsário noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)
  • navio corsário noun (privately owned warship)

Russian

3 entries
  • ка́пер noun (privately owned warship)
  • корса́р noun (privately owned warship)
  • привати́р noun (privately owned warship)

Spanish

2 entries
  • buque corsario noun (privately owned warship)
  • corsario noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)

Swedish

4 entries
  • fribytare noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)
  • kapare noun (privately owned warship)
  • kapare noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)
  • kaparskepp noun (privately owned warship)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • корсар noun (officer or crew of a privateer ship)

Sample sentences

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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.

Source: tatoeba (10797998)

Greetings, privateer.

Source: tatoeba (11510888)

Kidd soon threw off the character of a privateer and became a pirate.

Source: wiktionary

This is a major victory, not only for CUPW because it will deter profit-hungry privateers from taking work away from CUPW members, but also because it gives union protection to those employed by the privateers.

Source: wiktionary

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