[りゃくだつかかく, ryakudatsukakaku] (n) predatory pricing [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Predatory \Pred"a*to*ry\, a. [L. praedatorius, fr. praedari to
plunder, fr. praeda prey. See {Prey}.]
1. Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine;
plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a
predatory party. "A predatory war." --Macaulay.
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2. Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits. [Obs.]
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Exercise . . . maketh the spirits more hot and
predatory. --Bacon.
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3. (Zool.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
predatory
adj 1: characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding;
"bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a
raiding party" [syn: {marauding}, {predatory}, {raiding}]
2: living by preying on other animals especially by catching
living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf";
"raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for
offal" [syn: {predatory}, {rapacious}, {raptorial},
{ravening}, {vulturine}, {vulturous}]
3: living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain;
"predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in
which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S.
Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological
gangster"- W.E.Swinton [syn: {predaceous}, {predacious},
{predatory}]
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