Piracy
['paɪrəsɪ] or ['paɪrəsi]
Definition
(noun.) hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it; 'air piracy'.
Inputed by Angie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or crime of a pirate.
(n.) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land.
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Inputed by Betty
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles just as God made it.
Typist: Rebecca
Examples
- The slave-trade is now, by American law, considered as piracy. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But Rome went on its way quite stupidly, oblivious to the growth of a newer and more powerful piracy in the north. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The average American rarely speaks of industrial piracy as immoral. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It had come to buy and sell, and it found itself achieving a tremendous piracy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He then secured his inventions by patents against piracy, and sustained them successfully in many a hard-fought battle. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Thereupon Carthage, which was also vitally concerned in the suppression of piracy, came to his aid, and put in a Carthaginian garrison at Messina. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Editor: Rena