| 单词 | freebooter |
| 释义 | freebooter (once / 5907 pages) n A freebooter is a looter or raider. Freebooters are pirates. Originally, freebooters were pirates: roaming scoundrels who sailed the seas in search of spoils or plunder. In other words, freebooters robbed other ships. The term is now also used for people who steal in other settings. Freebooters, in any case, are robbers. The booty may be free for them, but they came by it through theft. WORD FAMILYfreebooter: freebooters USAGE EXAMPLESWhat the freebooter gains is attention, whether in the form of likes, shares, or new followers for its Facebook page. Slate(Jul 08, 2015) From a 70-foot tower, and a boat named Patrol, the police kept watch on wharf rats, saboteurs, pirates and freebooters. New York Times(Jan 14, 2015) Free-traders and freebooters may have found merely convenient the idea that Asia was full of unenlightened people, who had to be saved from themselves. The Guardian(Jul 27, 2012) n someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper despoiler, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler Khayr ad-Din Barbary pirate (died in 1546) Jean LaffiteFrench pirate who aided the United States in the War of 1812 and received an official pardon for his crimes (1780-1826) Sir Henry Morgana Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688) Bartholomew Robertsa Welsh pirate credited with having taken more than 400 ships (1682-1722) Edward Thatchan English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718) buccaneer, pirate, sea robber, sea rover someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation Barbary pirate, corsaira pirate along the Barbary Coast sea kinga Viking pirate chief stealer, thief a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it |
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