privateering
- present participle of privateer.
Example Sentences
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An 1856 treaty purported to ban privateering, but the U.S. refused to sign.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
The Protestant queen wanted colonies that would act as an ideological counterweight to Spanish Catholicism in the Americas and provide a base of operations for privateering expeditions that would raid Spanish shipping.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
While the practice known as privateering is archaic, the idea has come up in recent decades.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2022
Rather, the main reasons were an increase in trade, a decline in piracy and privateering and an improvement of ports.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2015
In 1619, the first Africans arrived in the Virginia colony on a privateering ship.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
