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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cayman
noun
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Cayman

Cayman \Cay"man\ (k[=a]"man), n. [From the language of Guiana: cf. Sp. caiman.] (Zo["o]l.) The south America alligator. See Alligator. [Sometimes written caiman.] [1913 Webster] ||

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cayman

n. (alternative spelling of caiman English)

WordNet
cayman

n. an alligator-like reptile of Central America and South America having a more heavily armored belly [syn: caiman]

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Cayman

Cayman may refer to

  • Caiman, small crocodilians of Central and South America
    • Alligatoridae, a family of which caiman is a genus
  • Cayman Islands, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom
    • Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, or Little Cayman, three islands that are part of the Cayman Islands
  • The BAE Caiman, a medium-sized armored vehicle used by the United States military
  • , a British frigate in service with the Royal Navy from 1944 to 1946

  • Porsche Cayman, a sports car produced by Porsche
  • AMD Radeon HD6900 GPU series, codenamed Cayman

Usage examples of "cayman".

Pepe Boltana, CEO of the Banco de Corpus Cristi whose head office is on Grand Cayman.

AFI was there, ministries of agriculture and so forth, and one of the banks the Columbians use, the Madrid and Grand Cayman Banco de Corpus Cristi Internacional.

He had to keep reminding himself that no one was being hurt by all this, that he was personally going to repay the money he had wired out from the Doub account to the numbered account in the Caymans.

Grand Cayman account-in return for their request that Lodestar put the President into Penn-Mar.

Pierre through the drowning jungle where ants fled like refugees, and wild pigs splashed and grunted, where butterflies made clouds of colour, and pium flies descended in searing fogs, while the snouts of caymans nuzzled the waves of their wake.

The Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, and the Netherlands Antilles each provided sophisticated banking services catering to the harried businessman in need of a secure hiding place for funds spirited from under the blind eyes of a trusting partner or the vengeful maw of a wronged spouse.

The Playa del Sol Company, Ltd, incorporated in the Cayman Islands, dissolved itself and its American subsidiary, Playa Enterprises, declared Chapter 11.

Liechtenstein, with branches in 144 Guernsey and in the Cayman Islands.

Well, this figure, this second one, is the magnetic heading from Cayman to Trox Island.

I ruled a straight track line from Grand Cayman to Trox on both maps and, having squeezed the information out of Kris, who was still inclined to look backward to his feeling of obligation and to his new alliance with Robin, wrote in the airspeed, and consequently the time, that should deliver us to Trox.

Tell that to the FBI agents flying down to the Caymans to track seaport cash, or to the local travel agent who booked their flights, or to the cabbie who drove them to the airport, or to the local defense attorneys who will represent the accused.

I waited with stifled impatience while he arranged for refills, but at length the source of all explanations agreed that yes, the top men, about five of them, had taken it in turns to stand guard over the hut, only actually they had sat on a chair in the doorway with a gun across their knees, and that had gone on for about a week, until the fishing boat arrived and took everyone to Cayman.

The return, for tomorrow afternoon, was not back to Asheville, but to Miami, and from there Mauney was flying to Grand Cayman, in the West Indies.

I've got a few questions about the bank accounts I saw in the Caymans, but nothing serious.

They met up again in front of an oak slab marked Cayman Corporate Trust.