PIRATE


Meaning of PIRATE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ paɪrət ]

( pirates, pirating, pirated)

1.

Pirates are sailors who attack other ships and steal property from them.

In the nineteenth century, pirates roamed the seas.

N-COUNT

2.

Someone who pirates video tapes, cassettes, books, or computer programs copies and sells them when they have no right to do so.

A school technician pirated anything from video nasties to computer games.

VERB : V n

• pi‧rat‧ed

Pirated copies of music tapes are flooding the market...

ADJ

3.

A pirate version of something is an illegal copy of it.

Pirate copies of the video are already said to be in Britain.

ADJ : ADJ n

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