"wildcat well" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Oil industry",
          "orig": "en:Oil industry",
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            "Petroleum",
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            "Fossil fuels",
            "Liquids",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 164",
          "text": "[L]ater BP were planning on drilling a wildcat well, or exploration well, in the same region probably with a semi-submersible rig.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An exploration well to determine the existence of petroleum in a probable hydrocarbon deposit."
      ],
      "id": "en-wildcat_well-en-noun-Yuq34nfW",
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        [
          "exploration",
          "exploration"
        ],
        [
          "petroleum",
          "petroleum"
        ],
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          "hydrocarbon",
          "hydrocarbon"
        ],
        [
          "deposit",
          "deposit"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "oil industry",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(oil industry) An exploration well to determine the existence of petroleum in a probable hydrocarbon deposit."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wildcat well"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 164",
          "text": "[L]ater BP were planning on drilling a wildcat well, or exploration well, in the same region probably with a semi-submersible rig.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An exploration well to determine the existence of petroleum in a probable hydrocarbon deposit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "exploration",
          "exploration"
        ],
        [
          "petroleum",
          "petroleum"
        ],
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          "hydrocarbon",
          "hydrocarbon"
        ],
        [
          "deposit",
          "deposit"
        ]
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      "qualifier": "oil industry",
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        "(oil industry) An exploration well to determine the existence of petroleum in a probable hydrocarbon deposit."
      ]
    }
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  "word": "wildcat well"
}