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词汇 piggybacking
释义 piggybacking
present participle ofpiggyback
piggyback
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈpɪɡ.i.bæk/ us /ˈpɪɡ.i.bæk/
to use something that someone else has made or done in order to get an advantage: 沾光,搭便车
Everyone wants to piggyback on the phenomenal success of the TV series.每个人都想借这部电视连续剧大获成功的机会沾点光。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Advantage and disadvantage
ace
an ace up your sleeveidiom
attraction
be well in thereidiom
be/stay/keep one jump aheadidiom
have something on your sideidiom
have the inside trackidiom
have the odds/cards stacked against youidiom
head start
hold all the cardsidiom
lock
lose
racing start
saving grace
scent bloodidiom
secret weapon
silver lining
stick
the best of both worldsidiom
trouble

Examples of piggybacking


piggybacking

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


This research has historically been laboratory based, 'piggybacking' onto existing projects.
The impost invited a piggybacking protectionism.
Piggybacking our sessions with existing organic conferences allowed us to solicit participants through conference brochures, and it reduced the travel time for growers who were interested in participating.
The talk nowadays is of giving priority to rail over road transport and going in for piggybacking.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
A number of people, particularly anti-fraud officers, have suggested that "piggybacking" is much more substantial than we think.
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It is wonderful that schools, doctors and local libraries will all be on line, but we must find a way of piggybacking on public investment.
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Hansard archive

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Finally, it would mean undertaking to develop 'piggybacking' and making immediate use of the existing transverse lines, which are under-used.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It has 20 rescue cruisers (usually piggybacking a smaller rescue boat), mostly operated by own full-time personnel and 40 rescue boats operated by volunteers.
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While persons engaging in piggybacking are generally honest citizens, a smaller number are breaking the law in this manner, avoiding identification by investigators.
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Such users are often unaware that they are piggybacking, and the subscriber has not noticed.
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Memes that fit within a successful memeplex may gain acceptance by piggybacking on the success of the memeplex.
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This architectural arrangement, commonly known as piggybacking, was frequently imposed on older traditional theaters during the 1960s and early 1970s.
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The aim of wardriving is to collect information about wireless access points (not to be confused with piggybacking).
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Regardless, piggybacking is difficult to detect unless the user can be viewed by others using a computer under suspicious circumstances.
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The process of sending data along with the acknowledgment is called piggybacking.
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