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Meaning of cuckooing | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The call of a cuckoo.
    countable, uncountable
  2. A form of crime in which the home of a vulnerable person is taken over by a criminal gang and used as a base for their activities.
    UK, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Suomi kukkuminen kukunta

Examples

“[…] the mistaken idea that wagtails and hedge-warblers feed the young cuckoos they bring up, long after they leave the nest, whenever they hear their cuckooing, […]”
“The specified criminal activity includes the types of criminal activity that cuckooing is typically used to facilitate, for example, drugs offences, sexual offences and offensive weapons offences.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

cuckooness cuckoopint Cuckoos cuckooshrike cuckow cuckquean

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