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/ˈpɹɛdəˌtɔɹi/
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[ UK /pɹˈɛdətəɹˌi/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɛdətəɹˌi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
predatory capitalists
a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster
a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal -
living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
a predatory bird
raptorial birds
a vulturine taste for offal
the rapacious wolf
ravening wolves -
characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding
bands of marauding Indians
predatory warfare
a raiding party
How To Use predatory In A Sentence
- It doesn't matter whether their poor credit ratings result from the poor handling of their accounts or from predatory lending practices that trapped them in a mountain of debt.
- The cases have mainly involved small companies and hedge funds or predatory investors. Times, Sunday Times
- The predatory player ran through to finish sweetly.
- What I find highly ironic and, indeed, perturbing, is that U.S. trade laws have in their application proven much more effective in inhibiting legitimate, cross-border, long-standing supplier-customer transactions carried on within a Canada-U.S. free trade environment than they have in dealing with these "dump and jump" boatloads of predatory imports. Free Trade With the U.S.Only in a Dream World
- We also found that one particularly aggressive predatory ant species tended to attack bugs carrying eggs, and gangs of these ants could succeed in killing them.
- The point is to protect the consumer from predatory business practices.
- In this study, we investigated the predatory behavior of the ant Azteca andreae which is associated with the myrmecophyte Cecropia obtusa. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
- Once upon a time it was a natural and unavoidable element in the relations of every married couple; just as it was natural and unavoidable, once upon a time, that the unwarlike and commercially-minded burghers of a mediæval city should bargain with a neighbouring and predatory baron to keep at bay – for a consideration – other barons no less predatory but a little less neighbouring. Marriage as a Trade
- Norman Solomon: Well, what goes by the term conservative is too often a sort of a euphemism for dog eat dog, whoever comes out on top, we believe in the survival of the fittest – a sort of perversion of Darwinism taken into a social realm, where generally, the predatory nature in the animal kingdom of one category of animal inflicted on another is sort of mimicked and replicated. Failed Conservative Values: Norman Solomon on Dog Eat Dog Greed
- A Southam-Torstar deal; a Canadian Tire; a Seagram attempt to bring in nonvoting shares; a predatory takeover of a subsidiary (Dominion Glass, Keeprite, etc.) are all at the expense of my clients and diminish my performance. Shareholder Democracy