transcription, транскрипция: [ plʌndə(r) ]
( plunders, plundering, plundered)
1.
If someone plunders a place or plunders things from a place, they steal things from it. ( LITERARY )
They plundered and burned the market town of Leominster...
She faces charges of helping to plunder her country’s treasury of billions of dollars...
This has been done by plundering £4 billion from the Government reserves.
= loot
VERB : V n , V n of n , V n from n
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Plunder is also a noun.
...a guerrilla group infamous for torture and plunder.
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2.
Plunder is property that is stolen. ( LITERARY )
The thieves are often armed and in some cases have killed for their plunder.
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