How to pronounce “pirate”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (crime) A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
• An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
• (by extension) One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.
• (ornithology) A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
• A kind of marble in children's games.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.
• (transitive, copyright law) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.
• (transitive, copyright law) To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.
• (intransitive) To engage in piracy.
• (transitive, intransitive, Philippines) To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.
• [Adjective]
• Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.
• [Adverb]
• piratically

Practice Nearby Words

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