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wind theft

wind theft noun: the act of unintentionally or strategically blocking another’s access to clean wind, as by creating a wind shadow.

Noun

wind theft (uncountable)

  1. The act of unintentionally or strategically blocking another’s access to clean wind, as by creating a wind shadow.
    • "The North Sea is being built up with wind farms, so there will be more and more wind theft."2025 June 7, The Australian Weekend Magazine, Australia, page 31, column 3

Questions about wind theft

What does wind theft mean?
Wind theft means the act of unintentionally or strategically blocking another’s access to clean wind, as by creating a wind shadow.
What part of speech is wind theft?
Wind theft is a noun.

Words near wind theft in the dictionary

  1. wind streams
  2. wind strength
  3. wind strengths
  4. wind swell
  5. wind swells
  6. wind theft
  7. wind throb
  8. wind tower
  9. wind towers
  10. wind tunnel
  11. wind tunnel testing

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