0 a person who attacked and stole from ships at sea, especially someone allowed by a government to do this in the 17th and 18th centuries
1 a business person who is determined to succeed even if this involves taking big risks:
These mercantile buccaneers are always wildly in favour of the free market.
But the difficulty has been to define the exact meaning of a pirate and of a buccaneer.
The buccaneers of the olden days were certainly men of the greatest bravery.
There was a buccaneer ship about to sail from Jamaica, and on this Morgan enlisted.
This, of course, the citizens were glad enough to do, and when the buccaneers had carried to the ships everything they had stolen, and when the beef had been put on board, they sailed away.
I think the critics and speakers were rather charged on a previous occasion with being buccaneers, with plunging rather too violently into the subject.
In the future we hope we will continue to be something of pirates, something of buccaneers, something of blockade runners.
In practice what have the private enterprise buccaneers to offer in the years ahead?
