piracy

piracy
n
1. robbery at sea, brigandage, buccaneering, freebooting, banditry, highway robbery, Obs. latrociny, privateering, filibustering, U.S. Inf. (usu. of cattle) rustling.
2. commandeering, hijacking, skyjacking, air or sky piracy; (usu. of persons) abduction, kidnapping, Sl. snatch, capture, impressment, conscription, man-stealing, child-stealing; (all of animals) poaching, deer-jacking, petnapping, dognapping.
3. plunder, plunderage, rapine, pillage, depredation, spoliation, despoliation, despoilment, Obs. direption, raven; ravaging, harrying, marauding, sacking, Rare. sackage, laying waste, devastation, desolation; raid, razzia, foray; foraging, looting, ravishment, seizure, grab, rape, predation.
4. plagiarism, literary theft, copying, Inf. cribbing, Inf. lifting, pirating; forgery, counterfeiting; expropriation, appropriation, arrogation, usurpation, accroachment, assumption.

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