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privateer

/prahy-vuh-teer/US // ˌpraɪ vəˈtɪər //UK // (ˌpraɪvəˈtɪə) //

私掠者,私营企业,私兵,私家侦探

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an armed ship that is privately owned and manned, commissioned by a government to fight or harass enemy ships.
    • : privateersman.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cruise as a privateer.

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Examples

  • Not content to only heli-ski in Alaska’s short season from mid-February through April, Harms became a privateer, founding what would become Third Edge Heli with Clark Fyans in 2007.

  • Check out Privateer Holdings, a venture-capital firm based in Seattle that is about to close on $7 million in funding.

  • One of her courtiers bet that Clark Gable as Rhett Butler would be her ideal, “a privateer, a romantic, and a fabulous cad.”

  • This heritage has so influenced his cuisine that Roellinger is often referred to as "the privateer chef."

  • Countless dogs fought under the feet of passers-by, and over all leered the sardonic face of Jean Bart, pirate and privateer.

  • The scheme was not impossible for any one holding a privateer's commission, and I applied to Mr. Yancey for a letter-of-marque.

  • Two days afterward he came upon a British privateer, which was on the hunt for American vessels.

  • Soon after he had some lively service in the Wasp, and captured a British privateer with the little sloop Sachem.

  • But the privateer captain had seen the fate of the General Monk and concluded that he had business elsewhere.