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Definition of freebooter : One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.

Synonyms:

marauder, spoiler, thief, pamperer, pillager, depredator, bandit, pirate, footpad, brigand, robber, burglar, forager, buccaneer, looter, plunderer, raider, coddler, despoiler, mollycoddler, highwayman

Usage examples:

• Men from the safety of the adjoining shore only looked on in calm curiosity, as nowadays men look on indifferently to see the powerful freebooter of the not less troubled business sea rob, impoverish, and perhaps drive down to untimely death others who only ask to be permitted to make their little voyages unvexed by corsairs. - "American Merchant Ships and Sailors", Willis J. Abbot.
• It is at variance with the customs and inclinations of the prairie freebooter, who, having acquired a booty, rarely strikes for another till the proceeds of the first be squandered. - "The Lone Ranche", Captain Mayne Reid.
• Not that he dreads treachery on the part of his fellow freebooter. - "The Lone Ranche", Captain Mayne Reid.