The word 'buccaneering' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to refer to adventurous and daring activities, which can be either legal or illegal. For example, you could say: "The buccaneering investor made a series of high-risk investments that ultimately paid off."
Having said that, it is striking how many people do – but a creative business needs creative characters and buccaneering spirits.
Likewise, the Cambridge Blue's extensive cask and keg line-up includes beers as traditional as Tydd Steam's highly drinkable Swedish Blonde, wheat beers brewed in Essex (Mighty Oak's Head In The Clouds), craft beers from New Zealand (I found Renaissance's Voyager IPA a little sweet), and such exotica as a chilli-infused black IPA from Peterborough's buccaneering craft outfit Bexar County.
Dunlop had his work cut out because David Cameron delivered one of his most important speeches of the campaign on 7 February, dubbed a love letter to Scotland, when he travelled to the Olympic Velodrome in east London to hail the "brave, brilliant, buccaneering" spirit of the UK.
He knew of its "buccaneering approach to accuracy and intellectual property" but thought - illogically - that its "growing popularity" made it more credible.
Hutchison Whampoa, a buccaneering, privately owned Hong Kong conglomerate, has long had a global network of ports.
Mr Mazzetti describes a rogues' gallery of buccaneering chancers, from Blackwater's head, Erik Prince, burrowing deep into America's clandestine establishment, to plausible fantasists such as Michele Ballarin, a Virginia businesswoman who reckoned she could "fix" the failed state of Somalia.
A class of moneymen who once only managed funds for buccaneering, rich families now count the world's largest public pension funds and endowments as clients.Have hedge funds succeeded because of their investment genius, or their crafty marketing?
Like his famous grandfather (to whom he bears some resemblance) he is an extroverted, mucking-in, buccaneering sort of toff, rather than the condescending and insipid kind.
British Aerospace, which did the first al-Yamamah deal in 1985, had a buccaneering culture very different from that of GEC, where, says Mr King, Lord Weinstock always demanded the highest standards of commercial behaviour.After nearly a decade of steadily growing profits and armed with a strong balance-sheet, BAE is in many ways in good shape.
But he casts doubt on one account of events that was penned by the main CIA plotter, Kermit Roosevelt, a buccaneering grandson of Theodore Roosevelt.
They placed the NSC within the Cabinet Office, a small department that works with the prime minister and the cabinet to smooth the running of government.That meant that the national security adviser would have to be somebody with a deep understanding of Whitehall, rather than a buccaneering global strategist like Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon's legendary NSA.
