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wildcatters

wildcatters is the plural of wildcatter.

Meaning of wildcatter

Noun

wildcatter (plural wildcatters)

  1. (US) Someone who drills for oil speculatively.
    • One of America's most successful “wildcatters” is poised to explore for oil in Venezuela after agreeing a draft deal with the country's authorities and buying seismic data to gain a head start on rivals.2026 July 18, Jamie Smyth, “‘Wildcatter’ who cracked Alaska sets sight on Venezuela”, in FT Weekend (Companies & Markets section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11
  2. A worker who participates in a wildcat strike.
  3. A person who makes wildcat cartridges and the guns that use them.
    • Roy Weatherby began his career in the firearms industry as a “wildcatter”, developing his revolutionary ideas about rifle cartridge performance and design.a. 2005, “Ammunition”, in Weatherby, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2005

Questions about wildcatters

What is wildcatters the plural of?
Wildcatters is the plural of wildcatter.

Words near wildcatters in the dictionary

  1. wildcat well
  2. wildcat wells
  3. wildcats
  4. wildcatted
  5. wildcatter
  6. wildcatters
  7. wildcatting
  8. wildcraft
  9. wildcrafted
  10. wildcrafter
  11. wildcrafters

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