Wildcatting

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wildcatting
       See {wildcat}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]