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单词 shanghaier
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shanghaier

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shang·hai

S0316600 (shăng-hī′, shăng′hī′)tr.v. shang·haied, shang·hai·ing, shang·hais 1. To kidnap (a man) for compulsory service aboard a ship, especially after drugging him.2. To induce or compel (someone) to do something, especially by fraud or force: We were shanghaied into buying worthless securities.
[After Shanghai1from the former custom of kidnapping sailors to man ships going to China.]
shang·hai′er n.

Shang·hai 1

S0316600 (shăng-hī′, shäng′-) A city of eastern China at the mouth of the Yangtze River southeast of Nanjing. The largest city in the country, it was a treaty port following the Opium War (1839-1842). France, Great Britain, and the United States all held large concessions in the city until the early 1900s.

Shang·hai 2

S0316600 (shăng-hī′)n. See Cochin2.
[After Shanghai1.]

shanghaier

(ʃæŋˈhaɪə) na person who shanghais
Thesaurus
Noun1.shanghaier - a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a shipseizerabductor, kidnaper, kidnapper, snatcher - someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)

Shanghai Tower

Shanghai Tower,

skyscraper in Shanghai, China. Largely completed in 2015 but not opened until 2017, it is the second-tallest building in the world and the tallest structure in China, standing 2,073 ft (632 m) high with 121 floors. Designed by the American architectural firm Gensler, it was begun in 2009. The glass and steel exterior, with a rounded triangular footprint, curved facade, transparent double curtain wall, and spiraling form, was topped out in 2013. The building contains retail and office space, restaurants, entertainment venues, and a luxury hotel. It is the tallest of a grouping of three skyscrapers anchoring the Lujiazui financial district in Pudong, Shanghai, the other two being the Shanghai World Financial Center and the Jin Mao Tower.

shanghaier

enUK
  • noun

Synonyms for shanghaier

noun a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship

Synonyms

  • seizer

Related Words

  • abductor
  • kidnaper
  • kidnapper
  • snatcher
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