pirate

Word family

pi·rate1 /ˈpaɪərət $ ˈpaɪrət/ noun [countableC]

1. STEALsomeone who sails on the seas, attacking other boats and stealing things from them 海盜 → piracy

2 COPYsomeone who dishonestly copies and sells another person’s work 盜版者，侵犯版權者，非法翻印者；侵犯專利權者 → piracy

Computer game pirates cost the industry twenty million pounds a year.

電腦遊戲盜版者每年要給該行業帶來兩千萬英鎊的損失。

pirate videos/CDs/software etc 盜版錄像帶/光碟/軟件等

3. pirate radio/TV (station) AMTillegal radio or television broadcasts, or the station sending them out 非法無線電廣播[台]/非法電視（台）

Examples from the Corpus

pirate radio/TV (station)• That's our very own pirate radio.• Unfortunately Phil had unwittingly chosen a bad time to clash with the pirate radio vessel.

—piratical /paɪˈrætɪkəl, pə-/ adjectiveadj literary

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pirate• But there may be pirates hiding among them.• A two-hour boat trip will take you to Lundy Island, once famous for its pirates and now for its puffins.• More pirates were starting to climb into the stockade.• Will convinces the pair not to eat them, but instead join forces in the hunt for the pirates and their captives.• Instead, park officials announced Friday, the pirates will run after women who carry trays of food.• Monarchs pretended to close their eyes to it while they shared the loot and then honored the pirate heroes.• Terror-stricken, the pirates ordered the helmsman to put in to land.• Happy Computing could have its own problem with pirates.

pirate videos/CDs/software etc• More than 1,000 pirate videos and 63 video recorders were also seized.• Muddying the issue of how much pirated software is on the Internet is the tremendous amount of software legally available to download.• Time allowed 00:21 Read in studio Detectives have seized around five hundred suspected pirate videos in a joint operation with copyright investigators.• Inside the home were pirate videos, hundreds of blank cassettes and cassette casings, they said.

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