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Another word for booty

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booty

n.

plunder, spoils, loot, winnings, stolen goods, prey, ill-gotten gains, seizure, prize, gift, pillage, takings, pickings, haul*, take*, swag*, boodle*, hot goods*.

booty suggests property taken by a band or gang, to be divided among the members; spoils (occasionally spoil) refers to any property, territory, etc. taken in war by the conqueror; pillage suggests violence and destructiveness in the taking of spoils; plunder is equivalent to pillage but also applies to property taken by bandits, highwaymen, etc.; prize refers specifically to spoils taken at sea, esp. the taking of an enemy warship or its cargo; loot, a more derogatory equivalent for any of the preceding, emphasizes the immorality or predatory nature of the act

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Another word for booty

noun

Goods or property seized unlawfully, especially by a victor in wartime:

loot, pillage, plunder, spoil (used in plural). (Slang) boodle. (Nautical) prize². See crimes, give

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They killed the port-reeve, took some booty and sailed away.
The first expeditions were for adventure and booty, especially the discovery of gold and silver.
The French, collecting booty, cared only for gold.
The British admiral was accused of applying himself so entirely to seizing and selling his booty that he would not allow his second in command, Sir Samuel Hood, who had recently joined him, to take proper measures to impede the arrival of French forces known to be on their way to Martinique.
Disagreeably awakened to the insecurity of his position by the refusal of the tsar and the sultan to accept him as a vassal, he feigned to resume negotiations with the Poles in order to gain time, dismissed the Polish commissioners in the summer of 1648 with impossible conditions, and on the 23rd of September, after a contest of three days, utterly routed the Polish chivalry, 40,000 strong, at Pildawa, where the Cossacks are said to have reaped an immense booty after the fight was over.

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