privateer

基本解釋

Since Kidd was a privateer for the British, this attack was considered an act of piracy.
因爲(wèi)基德之前是個受雇於英國的海盜搜捕船長，但是這次襲擊被認(rèn)定爲(wèi)海盜行爲(wèi)。
He captured several large treasure ships and then loaded his booty onto the ship that he captained when he was a privateer.
他捕獲了幾支大型的船支，然後將戰(zhàn)利品轉(zhuǎn)移到儅他是海盜船長時指揮的那條船上去。
Historians differ on whether Kidd was actually a pirate or a privateer — a ship or captain paid by a government to battle the enemy.
歷史學(xué)家在即的到底是否是海盜，抑或是武裝民船--由政府資助打擊敵人的船衹或船長--的問題上産生分歧。

He bought a Privateer with twin 150hp engines and sank a tow post into the stern.
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a person or ship allowed by a government to attack and steal from ships at sea, especially in the 17th and 18th centuries

an armed, privately owned vessel commissioned for war service by a government
a competitor, esp in motor racing, who is privately financed rather than sponsored by a manufacturer