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What does wildcatting mean?

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  1. present participle of wildcat
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Instead of dissolving it, Mattel used to do a little wildcatting and struck natural gas.
Aside from bullets and brass, the other major problems of wildcatting are a chamber reamer and loading dies.
In Canada, there are the construction workers in Edmonton, Alberta, who are wildcatting against the will of the union leadership and opposing the legislation regulating the right to strike in that province.
He also began wildcatting for new fields, and in 1957 discovered the large Empire-Abo field in southeastern New Mexico.
About Texas' passionate history of pushing back at what some see as big-government intrusion — a trend that traces back to the regulation-free days of wildcatting in the oil patches.
He was responsible for passage of the Wilderness Act, which is all that stands between deforestation and wildcatting across millions of acres of pristine federal land.

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