See privateer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2012, David A. McDonald, Greg Ruiters, Alternatives to Privatization: Public Options for Essential Services:",
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"ref": "2013, Peter Downs, Schoolhouse Shams: Myths and Misinformation in School Reform:",
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"sense": "privately owned warship",
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"roman": "sīlüè",
"sense": "privately owned warship",
"word": "私掠"
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"sense": "privately owned warship",
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"sense": "privately owned warship",
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"word": "私掠船"
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"sense": "privately owned warship",
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"word": "cap'taine à la course"
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"sense": "motor racing: private individual entrant",
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"ref": "1942, Valdimer Orlando Key, Politics, parties and pressure groups, page 95:",
"text": "The principle of collective bargaining has been a basic point of dispute; it infringes, as Perlman pointed out, the privileges associated with private ownership and management of property. […] These so-called charters were simply a license given to shady elements to privateer against the strong and growing unions.",
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"ref": "1995, Review of agricultural policies: Poland, page 75:",
"text": "The objective of the privatisation law of July 1990 was to achieve an ownership structure similar to that in western Europe within five years, with approximately half of state-owned assets to be privateered in the first three years.",
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"ref": "2004, Harvard Political Review, volume 31, page 31:",
"text": "They are generally kept in \"detention centers\" in the Australian desert, or on islands in international waters privateered by the government. These are operated by private security firms, which are not subject to international agreements.",
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