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Meanings of pirate in English
Person practicing piracy.
Related terms
Someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own.
Synonyms
Examples for "hijack"
Examples for "hijack"
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Council now wants to hijack the housing project from us, he said.
2
Privacy advocate Jeffrey Chester cautioned against letting industry hijack the do-not-track system.
3
Useful that, and precisely the route he now followed to hijack them.
4
They worry that scientific illiteracy and fearmongering will hijack any meaningful dialogue.
5
If you hijack a ship you would be hunted down and arrested.
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The federal statute does not commandeer the state legislative process, DOJ said.
2
Fine, I decided, I would just commandeer the house library for myself.
3
Kent and I will commandeer a tank and meet you back here.
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In one area, officials commandeer more grain than the farmers have actually grown.
5
He remembered it well from his doomed attempt to commandeer it last year.
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The study demonstrates the feasibility of large-scale in silico screening of anthropogenic compounds that may disrupt or highjack functionally important protein:ligand interactions.
2
So yuh see, Casey, a man can make an honest livin' at this game, even if he's highjacked every trip.
3
"You could go out and highjack some one."
4
It is also the greatest of Western religious feasts, a celebration of hope and rebirth, albeit one highjacked by clinical preparation and universal commercialism.
Usage of pirate in English
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The group also celebrates holidays such as 'Talk like a pirate day'.
2
The schooner you saw is not the pirate; it is the Foam.
3
The enlistment of the seven in the pirate fleet was tacitly acknowledged.
4
Tell her she should run away to sea and become a pirate.
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The trade body wants the pirate sites pushed down the search rankings.
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It was hardly a pirate ship, a place for freedom and adventure.
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The weak point in all pirate ships was the lack of discipline.
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Otherwise, scouring the coasts for pirate lairs is left to local authorities.
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There have been around 95 pirate attacks in Somali waters this year.
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He was thief and pirate in her eyes; nothing more, nothing less.
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It is from the second mentioned-thecapture of the pirate, as follows:
12
One level has ghosts; in another there's a pirate ship shooting cannonballs.
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During Carnival children often go out dressed in pirate or princess costumes.
14
In 1830 commanded a squadron of small pirate vessels off the Azores.
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A pirate negotiator said a tugboat brought the ransom to the brigands.
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Deserted in 1689 and went to sea with the pirate Captain Pound.
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Translations for pirate
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Pirate through the time
Pirate across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
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