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
That is to say, for all piracies committed eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, to the longitude and meridian of Socatora and Cape Camorin.
From Great Pirate Stories by Joseph Lewis French
No one deserves to be called an antiquarian who cannot put two and two together, and reconstruct from these data a more or less elaborate history of the piracies of Mr. Thomas Veal.
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
This engraving delighted the public whom it satirised, and Hogarth lost much through piracies of his work.
From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by S. R. Koehler
