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Meaning of wildcat

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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},
         {wildcat}]
      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}, {wildcat}]
      2: a cruelly rapacious person [syn: {beast}, {wolf}, {savage},
         {brute}, {wildcat}]
      3: any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and
         living in the wild

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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