Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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wildcat | Yes | Yes | No | No |
oil well | Yes | No | No | No |
wildcat (noun) | oil well (noun) |
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any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild | a well that yields or has yielded oil |
an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field | |
a cruelly rapacious person |
wildcat (adjective) | oil well (adjective) |
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(of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive | |
without official authorization | |
outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices |