Found 2 hits - Term: wildcatting, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : WordNet (r) 2.0
wildcatting
see wildcat
see also:
wildcat
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
wildcat
adj 1: outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business
practices; "wildcat currency issued by irresponsible
banks"; "wildcat stock speculation"; "a wildcat
airline"; "wildcat life insurance schemes"
2: without official authorization; "an unauthorized strike";
"wildcat work stoppage" syn: unauthorized, unauthorised
3: of a mine or oil well drilled speculatively in an area not
known to be productive; "drilling there would be strictly
a wildcat operation"; "a wildcat mine"; "wildcat
drilling"; "wildcat wells"
n 1: an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an
oil field syn: wildcat well
2: a cruelly rapacious person syn: beast, wolf, savage,
brute
3: any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat
and living in the wild
also: wildcatting, wildcatted
see also:
unauthorized unauthorised wildcat well beast wolf savage
brute wildcatting wildcatted
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