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antikidnap

antikidnap adjective: preventing or countering kidnapping.

Adjective

antikidnap (not comparable)

  1. Preventing or countering kidnapping.
    • He was never seen again, and the case remains unsolved today. Its haunting aftermath produced new antikidnap legislation[…]2002, Michael Newton, The Encyclopedia of Kidnappings, page 187
    • A first step in a company's defense against executive kidnapping is to develop a policy and obtain approval of an antikidnap plan.2010, John Fay, Contemporary Security Management, page 359

Origin of antikidnap

From anti- + kidnap.

Questions about antikidnap

What does antikidnap mean?
Antikidnap means preventing or countering kidnapping.
What part of speech is antikidnap?
Antikidnap is an adjective.

Words near antikidnap in the dictionary

  1. Antikeros
  2. antiketogenesis
  3. antiketogenic
  4. antikick
  5. antikickback
  6. antikidnap
  7. antikidnapping
  8. antikidney
  9. antikilling
  10. antikinetic
  11. antiking

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