Usually means: Taking property by force illegally.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. plunder: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. plunder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plunder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. plunder: Collins English Dictionary
  5. plunder: Vocabulary.com
  6. Plunder, plunder: Wordnik
  7. plunder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. plunder: Wiktionary
  9. plunder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. plunder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. plunder: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Plunder, plunder: Dictionary.com
  13. plunder (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. plunder: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Plunder (RuneQuest), Plunder (disambiguation), Plunder (play), Plunder (serial), Plunder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Plunder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. plunder: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. plunder: Rhymezone
  19. plunder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. plunder: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. PLUNDER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. plunder: Free Dictionary
  23. plunder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. plunder: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. plunder: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plunder: Legal dictionary

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  1. plunder: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plunder: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
verb:  (transitive) To take (goods) by pillage.
verb:  (intransitive) To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
verb:  (transitive) To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
verb:  (transitive) To take unexpectedly.
noun:  An instance of plundering.
noun:  The loot attained by plundering.
noun:  (slang, dated) Baggage; luggage.

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