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A wildcat is a small wild animal that looks a lot like a house cat but lives in the wild and is not tamed. The word is also used for a sudden, unofficial action - a 'wildcat strike' is when workers stop working suddenly without their union's official approval. It can also describe a risky business attempt where nobody is sure it will succeed, especially in oil drilling - 'a wildcat well' is drilled in a new area where no one knows for sure if there's oil.
野貓；(工人)自發的、未經批准的(罷工)；碰運氣式的(投機事業)
組成wild + cat
同家族的字
- wildwildcat is simply wild plus cat
原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
wildcatnoun/ˈwaɪldˌkæt/
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A cat that lives in the wilderness, specifically:
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A cat that lives in the wilderness, specifically:
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A cat that lives in the wilderness, specifically:
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A person who acts like a wildcat, (usually) a violent and easily-angered person or a sexually vigorous one.
- 2002 September 26, The Young and the Restless Anyone who's man enough to have landed a wildcat like you had to be quite a guy.
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American-footballball-gamesfootballAn offensive formation with an unbalanced line and a snap directly to the running back rather than the quarterback.
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nauticaltransportA wheel that can be adjusted so as to revolve either with or on the shaft of a capstan.
wildcatadj/ˈwaɪldˌkæt/
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derogatoryOf or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially
- Then the development of the home country was neglected for some wildcat idea of bringing up the backward people of other lands.
- […] the Tank being a small arena theatre located out between a traffic analysis firm and a wildcat transistor outfit that hadn't been there last year and wouldn't be this coming but meanwhile was underselling even the Japanese and hauling in loot by the steamshovelful.
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derogatorydatedOf or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially:
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derogatoryOf or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially:
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derogatoryOf or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially:
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engineeringfirearmsgovernmentOf or concerning customized or hand-made cartridges.
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Unauthorized by the proper authorities.
- 2003 June 15, CNN Jewish settlers have also been active putting up five new wildcat outposts on hilltops in the West Bank to try to thwart their Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
wildcatverb/ˈwaɪldˌkæt/
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To drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before.
- You'd have to be very rich or very desperate to go wildcatting that far east.
- His pitch was that fracking had transformed the production of gas from a hit-or-miss proposition to one that operated with an on and off switch. It was manufacturing, not wildcatting.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。