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  • n  an officer or crew member of a privateer
  • n  a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation

  • The idea of swashbuckling privateer heroes ridding the seas of these parasites is a grand one, but a romantic dream symbolic of past foreign excursion blunders.
  • As a very respectable privateer.
  • He was spared by the group's commander, Captain Christopher Newport, a career privateer who had lost an arm pirating booty on the Spanish Main and reckoned the colonists would need .
Quotes

  • Frank Williams in ITV.com
    If a privateer was trying to enter, financially you would find it very difficult right now to raise money, to raise capital and I would imagine that's what Aguri's problem was,Williams said. "We have a Japanese driver, never yet found a...
  • Erik Buell in PitchEngine (press release)
    The fact is that a privateer racer on a street bike beat the Japanese factories' barely disguised race bikes, and I'm proud of that,said Erik Buell, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Buell Motorcycle Company. "As an ex-privateer...
  • Ross Brawn in TSN.ca
    I think it's extremely difficult to see a privateer coming in because of the investment and the facilities needed, but it's viable for a lot of manufacturers at the moment,explained Brawn. "There's no reason why it shouldn't be viable for...

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