freebooter
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What the freebooter gains is attention, whether in the form of likes, shares, or new followers for its Facebook page.
From Slate • Jul. 8, 2015
Brown's freebooter status stems from a provision of campaign-finance law that allows "independent expenditure" operations -- I.E.s in the trade -- outside normal restrictions on fund raising and spending.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tall and broad, with the heavy, prominent features and classical tastes of a Roman emperor, Rhodes also combined the characteristics of an Elizabethan freebooter, a financial tycoon, and a humorless, aoth-Century dictator.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1847 a Portuguese freebooter and slave trader named Allen Vince sued him for a $200 debt, got a judgment against the land.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prosecutor Roy St. Lewis called Hale “the ruthless freebooter of death.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
