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piracy /ˈpʌɪrəsi /noun1 [mass noun] The practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea.Recent examples of Somalian piracy includes raids on ships carrying supplies for the UN World Food Programme....- Koizumi told reporters that many incidents of piracy have occurred despite shipping companies' own efforts to protect themselves.
- She couldn't possibly wear it often, and much less know about ships and piracy.
Synonyms robbery at sea, freebooting historical buccaneering 1.1A practice similar to piracy but in other contexts, especially hijacking: air piracy...- The topic was the arming of airline pilots as a defense against air piracy and terrorism.
- Nevertheless, Mr. Critton's act of air piracy is very much the context of the crimes for which he is to be sentenced.
- On May 17, a West German court convicted Mohammad Ali Hamadei of murder and air piracy and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
2The unauthorized use or reproduction of another’s work: software piracy...- Preston also sought the hack printers who actually produced the piracies.
- Willetts therefore argued that, far from destroying an industry, his piracies had no significant effect at all on existing publishers' sales.
- Newton learned to exploit the commercial press by secretly publishing his works and disowning them as piracies.
Synonyms illegal reproduction, plagiarism, illegal copying, copyright infringement, bootlegging, stealing, theft Origin Mid 16th century: via medieval Latin from Greek pirateia, from peiratēs (see pirate). |