privateer

privateer

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  1. k=en|historia kaappari

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privateer

  1. kaapparilaiva, sotalaiva, sota-alus, taistelulaiva, miehistön jäsen, perämies, päällystön jäsen, kaapparilaivan kapteeni, kaapparilaivan miehistön jäsen, Hawkins, Hawkyns, Sir John Hawkins.

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kaapparilaiva

kaapparilaivan miehistön jäsen, kaapparilaivan kapteeni puhekieltä A privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo. (defdate)
puhekieltä An officer or any other member of the crew of such a ship. (defdate)
(rfdate) (w)

Kidd soon threw off the character of a privateer and became a pirate.
(rfv-sens) An unethical individual or group acting covertly with enabling, usually bribed, accomplices inside government to destroy a government’s ability to carry out some aspect of its moral mission of protection and empowerment, by transferring critical moral functions along with public funds. (defdate)
An advocate or beneficiary of privatization of a government service or activity.
(quote-book)
(quote-book)| https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0830415696| author=George Beam| year=2001| passage=Privateers, such as Osborne and Gaebler, promise that good competition will not become bad — will not become cutthroat competition — if good competition is "carefully structured and managed;"
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puhekieltä A private individual entrant into a race or competition who does not have the backing of a large, professional team. (defdate)
To function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy. (defdate)
(rfv-sens) To undermine government’s moral mission to care for its citizens and to covertly steal public funds.
To advocate or benefit from privatization of government services.
(quote-book) These so-called charters were simply a license given to shady elements to privateer against the strong and growing unions.
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privateer rimmaa näiden kanssa:

weber, freelancer, cheerleader, outsider, loafer, schäfer, penger, suojapenger, rantapenger, tiepenger

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