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• the activity of riding on someone's shoulders or back, the way a child might try to ride a pig on a farm for fun.
• in marketing, as a description for using the know-how, brand, capital or other asset of some other company to enter in a market. The piggyback strategy is used to reduce risk, and more established companies can leverage the brand and market reach of a partner to help them very quickly pick up the credibility and awareness needed in new market segments.
• in telecommunications, piggyback may be a causal or slang term for multiplexing, particularly when a minor signal is carried on a major one (by subcarriers, for example).
• in electrical engineering, a piggyback circuit breaker is a double-switch that fits in a single slot in a breaker panel. This is only if they are side-by-side in the same unit — it does not count single half-height units which share a slot. Both are used when a panel has run out of slots, but can still accept the current. The piggyback breaker has two separate outputs, one for each circuit.
• in railroading, piggyback refers to the practice of carrying trailers or containers in a train atop a flat car.
• in optometry / ophthalmology piggybacking refers to the practice of using a smaller, rigid contact lens on top of a larger, soft contact lens for clinical reasons.

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Synonym

pickaback

External links

• Marketing tips: Piggyback Marketing