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Meanings of buccaneering in English

Portuguese
pirataria
Catalan
filibusterisme

Hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it.

        pirataria
        Usage of buccaneering in English
        1
        Some of the same buccaneering spirit is at work in Company Theatre.
        The Guardian
        2
        The buccaneering life has recently been given something of a PR boost.
        The Guardian
        3
        That would provide the most powerful weapon of defence against financial buccaneering.
        Deep Furrows
        4
        There must be a new departure, or buccaneering would cease to exist.
        Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates / Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning...
        5
        Ages turned back through the days of buccaneering to the more remote times.
        Gladiator
        6
        Our new plan was to go to South America on a buccaneering expedition.
        Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Ye...
        7
        The one that stuck was Pirata, for his buccaneering style and seaside roots.
        The Guardian
        8
        That buccaneering, rough and tumble life out there has its attractions.
        Bullets & Billets
        9
        Ignore the culture clash between Glencore's buccaneering millionaires and Rio's geologists.
        Reuters
        10
        I don't quite like the freedom of the lieutenant with these buccaneering fellows.
        The Two Supercargoes; Or, Adventures in Savage Africa
        11
        The affair at Maracaybo is to be considered as Captain Blood's buccaneering masterpiece.
        Captain Blood
        12
        He owned, with a shyly comic glance, that he had leanings towards buccaneering.
        A Tramp's Notebook
        13
        I can't love the buccaneering shopkeeper, the whisky-distiller with a rifle-ugh!'
        The Whirlpool
        14
        He related it... oh, just as a commonplace, an instance of buccaneering ways.
        Captain Blood
        15
        Here was a chance to launch a buccaneering run at David de Gea's goal.
        The Guardian
        16
        The consequence naturally was, that buccaneering became organized and consolidated.
        The History of Rome, Book IV / The Revolution
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        Portuguese
        pirataria
        Buccaneering through the time
        Buccaneering across language varieties
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