privateer
An advocate or beneficiary of privatization of a government service or activity.
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“we cannot let the privateer old car win again”
Well, THEY are pirates, you're a Privateer! Totally different and heroic. See also: Spies.
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An advocate or beneficiary of privatization of a government service or activity.
For example, when water workers leader Abelardo de Oliveira Filho says, investigations initiated by PSI in carrying out the mandate their members gave them to resist the privatization of water, to look into how the privateers worked
“Well, THEY are pirates, you're a Privateer! Totally different and heroic. See also: Spies.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(historical) An officer or any other member of the crew of such a ship; a government-sanctioned pirate.
Privateers, such as Osborne and Gaebler, promise that good competition will not become bad — will not become cutthroat competition — if good competition is "carefully structured and managed;"
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(historical) A privately owned warship that acted under a letter of marque to attack enemy merchant ships and take possession of their cargo.
This is a major victory, not only for CUPW because it will deter profit-hungry privateers from taking work away from CUPW members, but also because it gives union protection to those employed by the privateers.
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— Bluesky· May 2026““we cannot let the privateer old car win again””
— Bluesky· May 2026
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