buccaneering

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What went under the name of business [there] was really a form of buccaneering, all the pirates wearing dark suits and carrying cell phones instead of cutlasses.

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  1. adjective Showing boldness and enterprise, as in business, often to the point of recklessness or unscrupulousness.

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  • The wharves of Genoa in those days combined in themselves all the richness of romance and adventure, buccaneering, trading, and treasure- snatching, that has ever crowded the pages of romance. —  Christopher Columbus, entire
  • He extensively discusses Van Meegeren's 1920s apprenticeship with restorer / forger Theo van Wijngaarden (skated over by Dolnick, who prefers to see the artist as a buccaneering individual). —  Powell's Books: Overview
  • First came ruthless surges in unfettered, unregulated, unchecked 'free' markets - buccaneering periods when, as the South American poet Eduardo Galeano said, men are enslaved so that prices could be set free. —  Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
  • What went under the name of business [there] was really a form of buccaneering, all the pirates wearing dark suits and carrying cell phones instead of cutlasses. —  Powell's Books: Overview
  • It is not the Somali fishermen who profit from the buccaneering, anymore. —  TheZoo
 

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