piracy
noun
practice of a pirate; robbery or illegal violence at sea.
piracies
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pluralof piracy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Three are found in Article I, Section 8: counterfeiting, piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against international law.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
The piracies represented an oddly terrifying juxtaposition of technology and barbarism, an almost science-fiction quality of civilization in a retrograde time machine, stranded abruptly in a desert waste.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then one Carausius, an officer in command of the fleet stationed in the Channel for the suppression of piracies, assumed the title of emperor.
From The History of London by Sir Walter Besant
The ship was built by Lord Willoughby to protect English commerce from the piracies of the Dunkirkers.
From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang
Milton, Dante, Marlowe, Keats, and Browning, with those I have already named, and others, make up a goodly list of sufferers by this lighthearted corsair's piracies.
From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Arthur Ransome
