| slovo | definícia |
wildcat
(encz) | wildcat,bouřlivák n: [přen.] |
wildcat
(encz) | wildcat,divoch n: [přen.] |
wildcat
(encz) | wildcat,horká hlava n: [přen.] |
wildcat
(encz) | wildcat,kočka divoká n: |
wildcat
(encz) | wildcat,nebezpečný adj: [fin.] |
wildcat
(encz) | wildcat,nejistý adj: [fin.] |
wildcat
(encz) | wildcat,neoprávněný adj: [fin.] |
wildcat
(encz) | wildcat,průzkumný vrt na ropu n: |
wildcat
(encz) | wildcat,riskantní adj: [fin.] |
wildcat
(encz) | wildcat,riskantní podnik n: |
Wild-cat
(gcide) | Wild-cat \Wild"-cat`\, a.
1. Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to have
been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank
in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Railroad) Running without control; running along the line
without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.
[1913 Webster]
[1913 Webster] |
wildcat
(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 |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
wildcat strike
(encz) | wildcat strike,divoká stávka |
wildcat well
(encz) | wildcat well, n: |
wildcatter
(encz) | wildcatter,neoficiální stávkují n: Zdeněk Brož |
Wild-cat
(gcide) | Wild-cat \Wild"-cat`\, a.
1. Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to have
been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank
in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Railroad) Running without control; running along the line
without a train; as, a wild-cat locomotive.
[1913 Webster]
[1913 Webster] |
european wildcat
(wn) | European wildcat
n 1: bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic
cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat
[syn: European wildcat, catamountain, {Felis
silvestris}] |
wildcat strike
(wn) | wildcat strike
n 1: a strike undertaken by workers without approval from the
officials of their union |
wildcat well
(wn) | wildcat well
n 1: an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an
oil field [syn: wildcat well, wildcat] |
wildcatter
(wn) | wildcatter
n 1: an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not
known to be an oil field |
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