freebooter
An adventurer who pillages, plunders, or thieves privately or for compensationAn adventurer who pillages, plunders, or thieves privately or for compensation; or wages ad-hoc war on other nations, similar to mercenary; also a "freeboot".
Meaning
2 sensesAn adventurer who pillages, plunders, or thieves privately or for compensation; or wages ad-hoc war on other nations, similar to mercenary; also a "freeboot".
Freibeuter
грабительgrabitelʹ, пиратpirat, флибустьерflibustʹjer
One who rehosts online media without authorization, a form of intellectual property theft; one who freeboots.
- someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
Translations
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Origin
From free + booty + -er. Calque of Dutch vrijbuiter (literally “free booty-er”), from vrijFrom free + booty + -er. Calque of Dutch vrijbuiter (literally “free booty-er”), from vrij (“free”) + buit (“booty”) + -er (occupational suffix). Doublet of filibuster.
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Forms
plural: freebooters| Singular | freebooter |
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