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wildcatting

vb. (present participle of wildcat English)

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wildcatting

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wildcat
  1. adj. 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"

  4. n. an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field [syn: wildcat well]

  5. a cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage, brute]

  6. any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild

  7. [also: wildcatting, wildcatted]

Usage examples of "wildcatting".

She sank to her knees and Digen scooped her up, shocked at the wispy, weightless arms and legs, horrified by the wildcatting selyn production eating her alive.

He worked to control the Gen's wildcatting production rate, and said to Roshi, "Let me teach Fen to help you.

That geological information alone represents thirty years of seismic exploration and wildcatting, at a cost of perhaps half a billion dollars.

He recalled his father’s life of church, collecting LP records, spending Saturdays with his boy and weekdays wildcatting on the derricks.