The word 'privateer' is correct and usable in written English.
The word is usually used to refer to a privately-owned vessel authorized by a government to attack enemy ships during wartime. You would use the word in a sentence such as, "The privateer was sent by the British government to harass French merchant vessels during the Napoleonic Wars."
Privateer, privately owned armed vessel commissioned by a belligerent state to attack enemy ships, usually vessels of commerce.
Marley Natural is a partnership between the Marley estate and Privateer Holdings, "a private equity firm shaping the future of the legal cannabis industry".
Brendan Kennedy and Michael Blue run a private-equity firm, Privateer, that invests in the "cannabis space".
Brendan Kennedy, 41, whose Seattle-based private equity firm, Privateer Holdings, invests in the cannabis industry, said he worried that his firm would be thought of as "the cannabis guys," adding, "We learned most preconceptions are wrong".
Captured during fighting in Angola, they were being carried by a Portuguese ship to Mexico when an English privateer captured them, diverting them to Virginia.
The RMT (which insists on referring to Metronet as a "privateer") wanted guarantees that pensions would be protected and no jobs lost once Metronet's contracts were transferred to new owners.
At least 18 were wrecked.In the fleet were three privateer vessels hired for the occasion.
After 1689 he was sailing as a legitimate privateer for Great Britain against the French in the West Indies and off the coast of North America.
When they were defeated by the forces of Antony and Octavian (later the emperor Augustus) at Philippi in Macedonia in 42, Ahenobarbus held out as a privateer until he was reconciled with Antony in 40.
William Kidd, byname Captain Kidd (born c. 1645, Greenock, Renfrew, Scot. died May 23 , 1701 London) 17th-century British privateer and semilegendary pirate who became celebrated in English literature as one of the most colourful outlaws of all time.
