antikidnapping

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adjective

Preventing or countering kidnapping.

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Meanings

adjectiveantikidnapping (not comparable)
  1. not comparablegovernmentPreventing or countering kidnapping.

    In the capital on Friday, a city police commander, Esteban Robles Espinosa, 52, who once headed the department’s antikidnapping division, was shot and killed as he left his house at 7:30 a.m.

    2008 May 10, James C. Mckinley Jr., “Caught in a Swirl of Drug Violence, Mexico Vows to Fight Back”, in New York Times

Origin

From anti- + kidnapping.

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Translations

Portuguese antissequestro
  • antissequestropreventing or countering kidnapping
Spanish antisecuestros
  • antisecuestrospreventing or countering kidnapping
Cite this entry
APA

antikidnapping. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antikidnapping

MLA

“antikidnapping.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antikidnapping. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antikidnapping,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antikidnapping.

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