Third-person singular simple present indicative form of privateer.(verb)
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Use "privateers" in a sentence
"Then certain Southern privateers got lists of the New England whale-ships that were out, and lay in wait for them as whalers lie in wait for the leviathan."
"The captains were called privateers, as were the ships."
"The privateers were a resource in the interval ... they were really the armed force of the country. '"