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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war);
[syn: plunderer, pillager, looter, spoiler, despoiler, raider, freebooter]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Freebooter \Free"boot`er\, n. [D. vrijbuiter, fr. vrijbuiten to plunder; vrij free + buit booty, akin to E. booty. See Free, and Booty, and cf. Filibuster.] One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

freebooter n 1: someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) [syn: plunderer, pillager, looter, spoiler, despoiler, raider, freebooter]
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.