Definitions

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  • verb Present participle of plunder.
  • noun The act of one who plunders; pillaging or looting; plunder.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective given to taking by force what is desired
  • noun the act of stealing valuable things from a place

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Examples

  • Lebanese industrialists have pushed for registration of falafel, tabouleh and other elements of traditional Middle Eastern cuisine as Lebanese to protect them from what they call plundering by the

    news.beiruter.com - A directory of Lebanese blogs 2010

  • The currency was hopelessly debased, the government corrupt, the armies more interested in plundering the provinces than protecting them; many people believed the dissolution of the empire was at hand.

    superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism superversive 2010

  • It would seem that tips on playing competitive bridge, overweening pride, and short-term plundering were the leadership messages passed on through succession and down the ranks at Lehman.

    John O'Neil: President Obama's Future Leadership of Capitalism 3.0 2009

  • Robbing he called plundering the enemy; and hanging was, in his idea, a dastardly and cruel advantage that the latter took, and that called for the sternest reprisals.

    Catherine: a story 1839

  • Robbing he called plundering the enemy; and hanging was, in his idea, a dastardly and cruel advantage that the latter took, and that called for the sternest reprisals.

    Catherine: a Story William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • It would seem that tips on playing competitive bridge, overweening pride, and short-term plundering were the leadership messages passed on through succession and down the ranks at Lehman.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • It would seem that tips on playing competitive bridge, overweening pride, and short-term plundering were the leadership messages passed on through succession and down the ranks at Lehman.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • Photo: Stanley Greene Biopiracy is what watchdog groups and government officials call the plundering of biological organisms for profit.

    Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy? 2008

  • Photo: Stanley Greene Biopiracy is what watchdog groups and government officials call the plundering of biological organisms for profit.

    Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy? 2008

  • As the consciousness grows that we must develop a sustainable economic system to survive, beginning at the local level, as sustainability must, the idea of plundering the globe to loot recources begins to look self-defeating, even stupid.

    Going Local 2006

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