What's the difference between freebooter and freebootery?

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.

Freebootery


Definition:

  • (n.) The act, practice, or gains of a freebooter; freebooting.

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