English

Proper noun
wild|Wild west|West

1. The western United States during the relatively lawless 19th-century era of settlement.

#context|by extension A place or situation in which disorderly behavior prevails, especially due to a lack of regulatory oversight or an inadequate legal system.
#:The CEO commented that the Russian business environment of the 1990s was the Wild West.

• 2007-09-29 17:49 - WikiPedant - added defn2; tweaked defn1

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