(n.) A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.
(n.) A piratical vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hull's fishing history is celebrated in the Maritime Museum and a renovated trawler in the harbour, the Arctic Corsair.
(2) Adaptations Don Juan and The Corsair were both filmed in melodramatic black and white; the Byronic hero spawned a thousand celluloid imitations - Gabriel Byrne is convincingly Byronic as Byron in Ken Russell's hallucinogenic and slightly laughable Gothic (1986).
(3) Jennifer Egan is the author of A Visit from the Goon Squad (Corsair) Jeanette Winterson Photograph: Murdo Macleod The early 60s was a terrible time for women.
(4) Hunt also called for "an effort to rehumanise music, to connect with the real fans of music, to educate the casual corsair away from a life on the high seas and offer better music on land" in order to "successfully rebrand the music industry as the good guys who give us great music, rather than the bad guys who exploit young talent" – while acknowledging that the latter reputation isn't entirely undeserved.
(5) Three days later his borrowed, blood-splattered Ford Corsair was found abandoned – with a section of bandaged lead piping in the boot – at the cross-Channel port of Newhaven, East Sussex.
(6) Corsair Capital, where Davies is vice-chairman, leads a group of investors that has agreed to buy more than 300 branches of Royal Bank of Scotland to operate under the Williams & Glyn's name.
Freebooter
Definition:
(n.) One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.
Example Sentences:
(1) , a real triple-album of a movie, starring Ed Harris as US freebooter William Walker, who invaded Nicaragua in the 1850s and set himself up as president - before being executed by firing squad in Honduras in 1860.
(2) Seen by its proponents as an important check on power and by critics as an infuriating waste of time, the filibuster – from the Spanish filibustero , or freebooting – is an attempt by a minority political party to stall a bill, and hopefully prevent a vote, by endlessly debating it.
(3) To have a capitalist stock market being played like a casino by tens of millions of freebooting speculators right in the middle of a society still purporting to be socialist and run by a communist party with a deep affinity for rigid, Leninist, interventionist controls speaks to the contradictory nature of the modern Chinese dilemma.