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prospecting

[ pros-pek-ting ]

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noun

the activity of searching for valuable natural resources, as gold or oil:
Foreign energy companies continue to explore for offshore oil, even though international agencies say the prospecting violates international law.
the activity of searching for something, especially prospective or likely customers, clients, etc.:
Calling expired listings, knocking on doors to introduce yourself, and placing cold calls from lists of names all come under the umbrella of prospecting.

of or relating to the activity of searching for valuable natural resources:
The mine has two shafts 600 feet apart: a prospecting shaft over 150 feet deep, and a double compartment shaft over which hoisting machinery is to be placed.
Following a stint as a prospecting geologist in northern Ontario, he enrolled in a PhD program in the UK.
of or relating to the activity of searching for something, especially prospective or likely customers, clients, etc.:
The number of days between initial contact and a deal’s closing date is used to calculate the average number of days in the prospecting cycle.

First recorded in 1845–50; prospect ( def ) + -ing ¹( def ) for the noun senses; prospect ( def ) + -ing ²( def ) for the adjective senses

Prospecting for his illusion, his last journey was over the Peruvian Andes into Colombia.

Prospecting to find out just how much that hundred thousand or two or three you've sunk in me is worth.

"Prospecting" included the searching for gold in almost any way that was experimental.

Prospecting for valuable metals by electricity has been recently introduced in Wales with remarkable success.

Prospecting generally was done by organized parties numbering anywhere from five to fifty men.

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