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antikidnapping

antikidnapping adjective: preventing or countering kidnapping.

Adjective

antikidnapping (not comparable)

  1. Preventing or countering kidnapping.
    • In the capital on Friday, a city police commander, Esteban Robles Espinosa, 52, who once headed the department’s antikidnapping division, was shot and killed as he left his house at 7:30 a.m.2008 May 10, James C. Mckinley Jr., “Caught in a Swirl of Drug Violence, Mexico Vows to Fight Back”, in New York Times

Origin of antikidnapping

From anti- + kidnapping.

Questions about antikidnapping

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

Words near antikidnapping in the dictionary

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

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