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privateered

privateered is the simple past and past participle of privateer.

Meaning of privateer

Verb

privateer (third-person singular simple present privateers, present participle privateering, simple past and past participle privateered)

  1. To function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy.
  2. To advocate or benefit from privatization of government services.
    • The principle of collective bargaining has been a basic point of dispute; it infringes, as Perlman pointed out, the privileges associated with private ownership and management of property. […] These so-called charters were simply a license given to shady elements to privateer against the strong and...1942, Valdimer Orlando Key, Politics, parties and pressure groups, page 95

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Questions about privateered

What is privateered the simple past and past participle of?
Privateered is the simple past and past participle of privateer.

Words near privateered in the dictionary

  1. private-use characters
  2. private-wire house
  3. private-wire houses
  4. privated
  5. privateer
  6. privateered
  7. privateering
  8. privateerings
  9. privateers
  10. privateersman
  11. privateersmen

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