0 present participle of piggyback
1 to use something that someone else has made or done in order to get an advantage:
Everyone wants to piggyback on the phenomenal success of the TV series.
This research has historically been laboratory based, 'piggybacking' onto existing projects.
The impost invited a piggybacking protectionism.
Piggybacking our sessions with existing organic conferences allowed us to solicit participants through conference brochures, and it reduced the travel time for growers who were interested in participating.
The talk nowadays is of giving priority to rail over road transport and going in for piggybacking.
A number of people, particularly anti-fraud officers, have suggested that "piggybacking" is much more substantial than we think.
It is wonderful that schools, doctors and local libraries will all be on line, but we must find a way of piggybacking on public investment.
Finally, it would mean undertaking to develop 'piggybacking' and making immediate use of the existing transverse lines, which are under-used.
It has 20 rescue cruisers (usually piggybacking a smaller rescue boat), mostly operated by own full-time personnel and 40 rescue boats operated by volunteers.
