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Unauthorized vs Freebooting - What's the difference?

unauthorized | freebooting |

As adjectives the difference between unauthorized and freebooting

is that unauthorized is not having any authority while freebooting is engaged in piracy or plunder.

As a noun freebooting is

piracy or plundering.

As a verb freebooting is

present participle of lang=en.

unauthorized

English

Adjective

(-)
  • not having any authority
  • without official authorization

    • Usage notes

    * Objects: autobiography, copying, distribution, disclosure, publication, person, warfare, and a variety of others.

    freebooting

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Piracy or plundering
  • * {{quote-book, year=1853, author=James Richardson, title=Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The Haghar are well known, even in Europe, for their freebooting propensities. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1900, author=Josephine Elizabeth Butler, title=Native Races and the War, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Why do you now refuse to protect your own highway into the Interior,
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Howard Pyle, title=Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In a short time freebooting assumed all of the routine of a regular business. }}
  • The unauthorized rehosting of online media

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Engaged in piracy or plunder
  • * {{quote-book, year=1843, author=Ralph Waldo Emerson, title=The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In one respect, as I hinted above, it is only too good, so sure of success, I mean, that you are no longer secure of any respect to your property in our freebooting America. }}

    Verb

    (head)