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.
If any financial buccaneer had so rigged the market in his favour he would today be in goal.
Scarcely a week goes by without news of housewives being robbed by these door-to-door buccaneers.
Will he keep a sharp eye on the buccaneers—until recently anonymous buccaneers—who bought the property?
If it comes true, if they remain buccaneers and pirates in this sense, they have a very great future.
Some of them, it is true, were called "buccaneers ".
Certainly we did not go about it in the manner of international buccaneers on the high seas.
Those who knew him knew that he was a buccaneer, not a bureaucrat.
The buccaneers of today are not going to sponsor that kind of buccaneering.
