noun [U]
1 the crime of attacking ships at sea in order to steal from them
2 the act of making illegal copies of video tapes, computer programs, books, etc., in order to sell them:
software piracy
seealsoPIRATE
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for piracy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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