Definition of "plunder" []

• To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; pillage: plunder a village. (verb-transitive)
• To seize wrongfully or by force; steal: plundered the supplies. (verb-transitive)
• To take booty; rob. (verb-intransitive)
• The act or practice of plundering. (noun)
• Property stolen by fraud or force; booty. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• ""At my time of life, food and clothing be all that is needed; and I have little occasion for what you call plunder, unless it may be, now and then, to barter for a horn of powder, or a bar of lead.""
• "But how much loot will modern-day Willie Suttons really be able to plunder from the cloud?"
• "Overwhelming centralized force/power first evolves as a mechanism for plunder, is forced to expand as a mechanism for security and protection, then evolves as a force for domestic order and even justice -- something which in times becomes of interest to the powers that be."