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)
- To function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy.
- 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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- What is privateered the simple past and past participle of?
- Privateered is the simple past and past participle of privateer.
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