Wild West en · NOUN
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Meanings
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(broadly, figuratively) A place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails, especially due to a lack of regulatory oversight or an inadequate legal system.
In the wild west of the Internet, states have been reluctant to work together for this common purpose. One example of closer state coordination came in 2011 at the London Conference on Cyberspace […]
2012, Peter M. Haas, John A. Hird, Controversies in Globalization: Contending Approaches to International Relations, page 229:There were earlier Wild Wests too, of course, before the one that gave up gunplay for legal finagling.
1996, Michael L. Johnson, New Westers, The West in Contemporary American Culture, page 10:But apart from the Irish appreciation of creative criminality and outlawry's close association with wild wests, simply read again the title of Patrick Ford's newspaper: the Irish World and American Industrial Liberator.
2010, David M. Emmons, Beyond the American Pale, The Irish in the West, 1845–1910, page 296:In the Wild West of “influencer” marketing, there are few protections and plenty of easy marks.
2018 November 16, Taylor Lorenz, “How Hackers Are Stealing High-Profile Instagram Accounts”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 29 May 2023:
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| Wild Wests | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| wild west | alternative | lexicographic |
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Translations (41)
id Barat Jauh (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · ka ველური დასავლეთი (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · fi villi länsi (a place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails) · ro Vestul Sălbatic (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · vi Viễn Tây (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · sv High Chaparral (a place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails) · el Άγρια Δύση (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · eo Sovaĝa Okcidento (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · fr foutoir (a place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails) · cy Gorllewin Gwyllt (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · fr cirque (a place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails) · pl Dziki Zachód (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · sv vilda västern (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · eo Malnova Okcidento (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · uk Ди́кий За́хід (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · gl salvaxe oeste (a place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails) · fr bordel (a place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails) · fi Villi länsi (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · pt Velho Oeste (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · eo Fora Okcidento (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · hu Vadnyugat (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · pt faroeste (a place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails) · de Wilder Westen (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · pl Dziki Zachód (a place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails) · nl Wilde Westen (a place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails) · hu vadnyugat (a place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails) · fr Far West (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · nb villvest (a place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails) · sv vilda västern (a place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails) · id tanah biadab (a place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails) · ru Ди́кий За́пад (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · cmn 舊西部 /旧西部 (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · tr Vahşi Batı (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · da det vilde vesten (a place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails) · ca Far West (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · af Wilde Weste (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · es Lejano Oeste (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · fr far west (a place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails) · nn villvest (a place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails) · it Far West (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement) · nl Wilde Westen (the western United States during the 19th-century era of settlement)