predatory

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Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain
Of, or relating to a predator
Living by preying on other living animals
prone to pillaging
{a} pludnering, preying, rapacious
characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"
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"
Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous
{s} hunting other creatures for food; exploiting, taking advantage of others; robbing, pillaging
Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits
Predatory animals live by killing other animals for food. predatory birds like the eagle
Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party
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
Predatory people or organizations are eager to gain something out of someone else's weakness or suffering. People who run small businesses are frightened by the predatory behaviour of the banks
predatory pricing
A strategy of selling a good or service at a very low price so as to drive one's competitors out of business (at which point one can raise one's prices more freely)
predatory pricing
If a company practises predatory pricing, it charges a much lower price for its products or services than its competitors in order to force them out of the market. Predatory pricing by large supermarkets was threatening the livelihood of smaller businesses
predatorily
in a predatory manner; predaciously, in the manner of hunting other animals for food; exploitively, while taking advantage of others
predatorily
In a predatory manner
predatory
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