privateer

As a noun privateer

is (nautical) a privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo.

As a verb privateer

is to function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy.

As a conjunction ca is

because.

As nouns the difference between mercenary and privateer

is that mercenary is a person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose prime or sole motivation is private gain while privateer is (nautical) a privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo.

As an adjective mercenary

is motivated by private gain.

As a verb privateer is

to function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy.

In nautical terms the difference between privateer and galley

is that privateer is a privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo while galley is the cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.

As a verb privateer

is to function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy.

As nouns the difference between privateer and null

is that privateer is (nautical) a privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb privateer

is to function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy.

As nouns the difference between filibustero and privateer

is that filibustero is pirate, plunderer, freebooter while privateer is (nautical) a privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo.

As a verb privateer is

to function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy.

As nouns the difference between filibusterer and privateer

is that filibusterer is a person who filibusters while privateer is a privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo.

As a verb privateer is

to function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy.

Privateer is a synonym of buccaneer.

In nautical terms the difference between buccaneer and privateer

is that buccaneer is any of a group of seamen who cruised on their own account on the Spanish Main and in the Pacific in the 17th century; similar to pirates but did not prey on ships of their own nation while privateer is a privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo.

As a noun privateer

is a privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo.

As a verb privateer

is to function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy.

As an adjective privater is

comparative of private.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and privateer

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while privateer is (nautical) a privately owned warship that had official sanction to attack enemy ships and take possession of their cargo.

As a verb privateer is

to function under official sanction permitting attacks on enemy shipping and seizing ship and cargo; to engage in government-sponsored piracy.