1. A goverment sponsered pirate, or mercenary
2. An armed ship, privately owned. Or, a member of it's crew.
3. A reference used to describe a well equiped, mobile, independent business operator with a healthy sense of self interest.
2. An armed ship, privately owned. Or, a member of it's crew.
3. A reference used to describe a well equiped, mobile, independent business operator with a healthy sense of self interest.
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Despite its rather fagged out sounding name, real Privateers are basically sea going mercenaries. They were often hired during the Age of Enlightenment to escort merchants and to fight against the Spanish/French/English depending on who they were working for.
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Get the privateer mug.A privateer is a private person or ship, which carry arms to protect themselves from pirates, that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war by a sovereign or delegated authority, empowering the privateer to carry on all forms of hostility permissible at sea by the usages of war.
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Also popularized by Linus Tech Tips as a more sublte version of Cyber Pirating.
On the WAN Show his viewers, that use Ad Blockers, got offended, when he called their action a form of Pirating. So he started using the word privateer.
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