privateering Synonyms
Another word for privateering
• noun (Context 1)
The historical practice of privately owned armed ships being commissioned by a government to capture or disrupt enemy merchant shipping during wartime.
"The signing of the Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law in 1856 formally abolished buccaneering among most European powers."
• adjective (Context 2)
Engaged in, characteristic of, or relating to state-sanctioned maritime raiding by privately owned vessels.
"The maritime museum displayed several navigation charts recovered from an eighteenth-century corsair expedition."
• verb (Context 3)
To cruise in or command a privately owned armed vessel commissioned by a government to seize enemy merchant ships (present participle of privateer).
"Several colonial merchant captains spent the duration of the conflict buccaneering along the Atlantic trade routes."