| 单词 |
wild-catting |
| 释义 |
wild-catting, vbl. n.
[f. wild cat + -ing1.]
The action of engaging in a ‘wild-cat’ business or enterprise; spec. (a) the drilling of a wildcat well; (b) participation in a wildcat strike; occas. also as ppl. a.
1883Century Mag. July 331/1 ‘Wild-catting’ is the name applied to the venturesome business of drilling [oil] wells on territory not known to contain oil. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 2 Feb. 76/3 The kind of wild-catting and red-dogging that was rife before the war. 1909W. S. Tower Story of Oil v. 66 Many of the most valuable oil deposits..have been revealed by the more or less random process of ‘wild-catting’. 1967Economist 18 Mar. 1014/2 Just like wild-catting shop stewards, they [sc. demonstrators] brought into disrepute the cause that they affected to support. 1969Guardian 22 Sept. 15/1 The West Berlin workers decided that anything their Ruhr brothers can do in the way of wildcatting the Berliners can do better. 1972L. M. Harris Introd. Deepwater Floating Drilling Operations xv. 159 Nearly always, a floating drilling operation is a wildcatting venture in an area previously undrilled. 1976M. Machlin Pipeline xxxii. 370 The way things are going these days, I think I might just go back to the wildcatting in East Texas. |
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