Whaling is the activity of hunting and killing whales.
...a ban on commercial whaling.
...the whaling industry.
whaling in British English
(ˈweɪlɪŋ)
noun
1.
the work or industry of hunting and processing whales for food, oil, etc
adverb
2. informal
(intensifier)
a whaling good time
whaling in American English1
(ˈhweɪlɪŋ; ˈweɪlɪŋ)
noun
the work or trade of hunting and killing whales for their blubber, whalebone, etc.
whaling in American English2
(ˈhweɪlɪŋ; ˈweɪlɪŋ)
noun
Informal
a sound thrashing; whipping
Word origin
< whale2 + -ing
Examples of 'whaling' in a sentence
whaling
It will make it harder to overturn the 1986 ban on commercial whaling.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The moratorium on commercial whaling is less and less effective each year.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The ban on commercial whaling did not mean no whales were killed.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Now there is the possibility that commercial whaling will be reintroduced.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
In exchange, the outright ban on whaling would be dropped.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
At the centre of the conflict is the future of the 20-year-old whaling ban.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The 19th-century whaling industry was dangerous but lucrative.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This amounts to pulling out of a global agreement on limiting whale catches and potentially puts Greenland on the path to resuming commercial whaling.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
So long as commercial whaling isn't happening, the increase should continue.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
I reflected that he must be one of those hunters so adversely affected when the whaling industry dramatically collapsed in the early years of the century.
Edward Beauclerk Maurice THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic (2004)
Some say a resumption of commercial whaling, with the right controls in place, could produce a better outcome.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Commercial whaling has been banned since 1986 after overwhelming evidence that it was driving the world's largest mammals to extinction.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Or is he actually hardening opinion in Japan, making it less likely that the whaling fleets will return to port?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He then spent nine months working on a whaling ship that went to Antarctica but on his return continued taking walk-on parts in films.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Antarctica is facing its second pollution crisis in a month after fire erupted on a Japanese whaling ship, leaving it drifting near penguin breeding grounds.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In other languages
whaling
British English: whaling NOUN
Whaling is the activity of hunting and killing whales.