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piracy

 

  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Piracy  \Pi"ra*cy\,  n.;  pl  {Piracies}.  [Cf.  LL  piratia,  Gr  ?. 
  See  {Pirate}.] 
  1.  The  act  or  crime  of  a  pirate. 
 
  2.  (Common  Law)  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  piracy 
  n  1:  robbery  on  the  high  seas;  taking  a  ship  away  from  the 
  control  of  those  who  are  legally  entitled  to  it  [syn:  {buccaneering}] 
  2:  the  act  of  falsely  representing  the  ideas  or  work  of  others 
  as  your  own  [syn:  {plagiarization},  {plagiarisation}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  piracy 
 
  {software  piracy} 
 
 
 
  From  THE  DEVIL'S  DICTIONARY  ((C)1911  Released  April  15  1993)  [devils]: 
 
  PIRACY,  n.  Commerce  without  its  folly-swaddles,  just  as  God  made  it




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