POACHERS Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

poachers

noun

plural of poacher

as in smugglers

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as in hunters

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nonhunters

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Noun

Often, smugglers are only engaged in the industry out of financial necessity or coercion.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2026
One roofer paid smugglers $15,000, was deported or left three times, and paid $5,000 each return.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of smugglers

Noun

So if bigger, more mature bats of breeding age are being targeted by hunters, that could affect flying fox populations overall.

— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2026
As a condition of his federal-court sentence, Lewton is prohibited from outfitting or guiding hunters for a full year.

— Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of hunters

Noun

Maritime security experts aren’t sure where the pirates are getting their funding.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2026
Alas, Medak also is famous for directing the lamentable Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1974), a comedy about bumbling 17th century pirates that starred the combustible Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan.

— Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of pirates

Noun

No new legislation or regulations are needed, just enforce the existing laws and rules and the hawkers will melt away.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 28 Oct. 2026
They're joined by fishermen, auctioneers, fish hawkers and wholesalers, transport workers and ice suppliers.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of hawkers

Noun

The father pulls over, and the car is immediately swarmed over by bandits, who brutally kill him — plus his wife and two kids — with no mercy.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2026
In the decade of violent conflicts that followed, attacks on border towns and seizures of American property by revolutionaries and bandits prompted the United States to send two military expeditions into Mexico.

— Robert B. Zoellick, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of bandits

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