Word Meanings - BOOTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty. Sir. J. Harrington.

Related words: (words related to BOOTING)

• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• ADVANTAGE
  1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages
• ADVANTAGEOUSNESS
  Profitableness.
• ADVANTAGEABLE
  Advantageous.
• BOOTY
  That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton. To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order
• PLUNDERAGE
  The embezzlement of goods on shipboard. Wharton.
• ADVANTAGEOUS
  Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation
• ADVANTAGEOUSLY
  Profitably; with advantage.
• PLUNDER
  Etym: 1. To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South. 2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy
• DISADVANTAGE
  1. Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or injury. I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. Burke.
• FREEBOOTY
  Freebootery.
• DISADVANTAGEABLE
  Injurious; disadvantageous. Bacon.
• DISADVANTAGEOUS
  Attended with disadvantage; unfavorable to success or prosperity; inconvenient; prejudicial; -- opposed to advantageous; as, the situation of an army is disadvantageous for attack or defense. Even in the disadvantageous position in which he had