"cannibalisation" meaning in English

See cannibalisation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: cannibalisations [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} cannibalisation (usually uncountable, plural cannibalisations)
  1. (British spelling) Alternative form of cannibalization Tags: UK, alt-of, alternative, uncountable, usually Alternative form of: cannibalization Related terms: cannibalise
    Sense id: en-cannibalisation-en-noun-Bbh1j1LT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSONL data for cannibalisation meaning in English (1.1kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cannibalisations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "cannibalisation (usually uncountable, plural cannibalisations)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "cannibalization"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 February, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 121",
          "text": "The condemned A.E.C. diesel railcar, No. W28W, is at Southall for cannibalisation to provide spares for the others of its type still in service.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of cannibalization"
      ],
      "id": "en-cannibalisation-en-noun-Bbh1j1LT",
      "links": [
        [
          "cannibalization",
          "cannibalization#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British spelling) Alternative form of cannibalization"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "cannibalise"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cannibalisation"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cannibalisations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "cannibalisation (usually uncountable, plural cannibalisations)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "cannibalise"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "cannibalization"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "British English forms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 February, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 121",
          "text": "The condemned A.E.C. diesel railcar, No. W28W, is at Southall for cannibalisation to provide spares for the others of its type still in service.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of cannibalization"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cannibalization",
          "cannibalization#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British spelling) Alternative form of cannibalization"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cannibalisation"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-27 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (0f7b3ac and b863ecc). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.