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whaling
[hwey-ling, wey-]
noun
the work or industry of capturing and rendering whales; whale fishing.
Digital Technology.a phishing attempt by someone posing as a company’s attorney, CEO, vendor, or other authorized entity in order to scam a payroll department, corporate executive, etc., out of money or confidential information.
The source of the whaling gave all appearances of legitimacy and trustworthiness.
whaling
/ ˈɱɪɪŋ /
noun
the work or industry of hunting and processing whales for food, oil, etc
adverb
informal(intensifier)
a whaling good time
Other Word Forms
- antiwhaling adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of whaling1
Example Sentences
It is estimated that 2.9 million whales were killed by the whaling industry in the 20th Century alone.
She said the increase could be due to a number of reasons, including that whale populations are recovering following the end of commercial whaling in the 1980s.
Like bowhead and right whales, these were also almost wiped out by whaling.
Police had acted on a 2012 Japanese warrant that accused him of causing damage to a Japanese whaling ship, obstructing business and injuring a crew member during an encounter in Antarctic waters in February 2010.
A recent study in the journal Science calculates just how much, reporting that — thanks to the near-total disappearance of commercial whaling — accidental ship collisions are now the leading cause of unnatural large whale deaths worldwide.
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