piracy

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pi=ra=cy

CIDE DICTIONARY

piracy, n. [Cf. LL. piratia, Gr. . See Pirate.].

•  The act or crime of a pirate.  [1913 Webster]
•  Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land.  [1913 Webster]

  " By statute law several other offenses committed on the seas (as trading with known pirates, or engaging in the slave trade) have been made piracy."  [1913 Webster]
•  Abbott.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

piracy, n. (pl. -ies)
1 the practice or an act of robbery of ships at sea.
2 a similar practice or act in other forms, esp. hijacking.
3 the infringement of copyright.

Etymology

med.L piratia f. Gk pirateia (as PIRATE)

DEVIL DICTIONARY

piracy

n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

ROGET THESAURUS

piracy

Nonobservance

N nonobservance, evasion, inobservance, failure, omission, neglect, laches, laxity, informality, infringement, infraction, violation, transgression, piracy, retraction, retractation, repudiation, nullification, protest, forfeiture, lawlessness, disobedience, bad faith, violating, lawless, transgressive, elusive, evasive, unfulfilled &c (fulfill).

Stealing

N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.