参考词典中wildcat的常规释义:
基本释义
- n. 野猫,莽撞的人
a. 鲁莽的,不可靠的
vi. 盲目开掘油井,从事非法商业活动
词形变化
- 时 态:wild·cat·ted, wild·cat·ting, wild·cats
常用短语
参考例句
- wildcat life insurance schemes.
非法从事的终生人寿保险计划
- wildcat life insurance schemes.
英英解释
3个名词解释
- an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field
[同] wildcat, wildcat well - a cruelly rapacious person
[同] beast, brute, savage, wildcat, wolf
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- any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild
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- outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices
[例]- wildcat currency issued by irresponsible banks
- wildcat stock speculation
- a wildcat airline
- wildcat life insurance schemes
- without official authorization
[同] unauthorised, unauthorized, wildcat
[例]- an unauthorized strike
- wildcat work stoppage
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- (of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive
[例]- drilling there would be strictly a wildcat operation
- a wildcat mine
- wildcat drilling
- wildcat wells
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