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pi´rate|like´: pi|rate «PY riht», noun, verb, -rat|ed, -rat|ing, adjective.

–n.

1. a person who attacks and robs ships; robber on the seas; buccaneer; freebooter: »Blackbeard became one of the most feared pirates operating in the West Indies (Willard H. Bonner).

2. a ship used by pirates: »Squadrons of pirates hung yet about the smaller islands (James A. Froude).

3. anyone who roves about in quest of plunder; marauder: »Pirates of the desert... (Washington Irving).

4. Figurative. a person, company, or organization that appropriates or uses something to which another has the exclusive rights: »A law was passed to squash the pirates, whose offshore transmissions were unauthorized (T. J. Hickey).

–v.i.

to be a pirate or commit an act of piracy.

–v.t.

1. to commit piracy upon; plunder as a pirate.

2. to rob; plunder.

3. Figurative. a) to publish or use without the author's permission: »to pirate a book.
b) to appropriate or use (something, the exclusive rights to which have been assigned to another): »to pirate a wave-length. Rather than investing millions of dollars in research, development and testing, they…pirate drugs from the West (Science News Letter).

–adj.

that engage in piracy: »a pirate radio station. Pirate syndicates are already forming to try to exploit the game on the West Coast (Alistair Cooke).

╂[< Latin pīrata < Greek peirāt < peirân to attack; (originally) to try, make a hostile attempt on]

–pi´rate|like´, adjective.

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