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
Algiers renewed its piracies and slave-taking, though on a smaller scale, and the measures to be taken with it were discussed at the conference or congress of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1818.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
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
Much of our surgical practice in China was due to these piracies and forays.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
