freebooting

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To pilage or plunder

   To pilage or plunder; piracy

   • The Haghar are well known, even in Europe, for their freebooting propensities.
   • Why do you now refuse to protect your own highway into the Interior, […] and thus put an end to the freebooting of the Boers, and of our own people who joined them?
   • In a short time freebooting assumed all of the routine of a regular business.
2. 2

   Software piracy, or stealing or unauthorized rehosting of digital content.

   • Your recent issue about the problems of electronic software piracy or "freebooting" — if you will — was excellent and timely. However, I wonder if both sides have failed to understand the social significance of the struggle.
   • Freebooting of broadcast satellite signals may exist privately, but we have no evidence of illegal signal capture being commercialized any longer.
   • Many felt that the software companies are really the ones who ought to be called pirates. […] No wonder, the reader said, that customers are tempted to a little freebooting of their own.
3. 3

   Engaged in piracy or plunder

   • In one respect, as I hinted above, it is only too good, so sure of success, I mean, that you are no longer secure of any respect to your property in our freebooting America.
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   1. 4

      present participle and gerund of freeboot

The neighborhood