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shanghaied
adjective as in kidnapped
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We just opened a Shanghai office, and I want to make sure that there’s free movement of ideas, of knowledge.
At the time it filed its prospectus, the Shanghai-based company had only shipped 500 units and was $500 million in debt.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange canceled Ant’s IPO in Shanghai the next day.
The stock exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen rank among the world’s top 10 operators and have for years rivaled to claim the top spot.
The new rules also came just one week after Beijing pulled the plug on Ant Group’s highly anticipated dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
The shanghaied man stood facing Schantze, with all the deference of a sailor, yet subtly defiant.
He had none the less been shanghaied for a voyage of great length, and he had been shanghaied out of sincere kindness.
But Bowers appeared to have vanished as entirely as though he had been shanghaied and was a hundred miles at sea.
I was shanghaied onto a freighter, and had to work for eight years without pay to get passage back.
In the carriage I asked the detective chief what was meant by ‘Shanghaied’ for it was evidently a criminal class word.
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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shanghaied, such as: captured, seized, snatched, held for ransom, and taken hostage.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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