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 predatory ['predәtәri]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 掠夺成性的, 捕食生物的, 掠夺的

[医] 捕食的


  1. A predatory operation mounted against a competitor, especially an attempt to lure away the personnel or membership of a competing organization.
    掠夺对竞争对手采取的掠夺式的行动，尤指目的在于吸引走竞争组织的人员或成员
  2. A person of a rapacious, predatory, or profiteering nature.
    贪婪的人具有贪婪、凶残或逐利性格的人
  3. Only half of states have laws against predatory lending.
    只有一般的州有针对掠夺式贷款的法律。


predatory
[ adj ]
  1. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding

    2. <adj.all>
    bands of marauding Indians
    predatory warfare
    a raiding party
  2. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

    3. <adj.all>
    a predatory bird
    the rapacious wolf
    raptorial birds
    ravening wolves
    a vulturine taste for offal
  3. living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain

    4. <adj.all>
    predatory capitalists
    a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal
    a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster


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.

2. Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits. [Obs.]

Exercise . . . maketh the spirits more hot and
predatory. --Bacon.

3. (Zo["o]l.) Living by preying upon other animals;
carnivorous.

  1. It believes that there is no evidence of any such rise. Last year the OFT found that selling The Times at 30p did not represent predatory pricing.
  2. James P. Mooney, president of the National Cable Television Association, argues that the phone companies would use their monopoly power and deep pockets for predatory pricing and for subsidizing their cable ventures.
  3. So it began licensing operators and regulating charter rates to stop "predatory" price cutting, says Leonard Hall, who is in charge of concessions for the Park Service in the southeastern U.S., which includes the Virgin Islands.
  4. THE Office of Fair Trading yesterday cleared The Times of predatory pricing over its 15p price cut to 30p on weekdays.
  5. Ms. Baker's predatory suburban housewife fails to seduce him, then claims he attacked her.
  6. The company's performance and dramatic share price retreat also prompted talk of predatory interest.
  7. Not long ago, jokes about investment bankers focused on predatory styles of deal-making.
  8. Although the Supreme Court rejected the Justice Department suggestion, one Washington lawyer, Donald Turner, said that as a result of the ruling, "a company is going to have an awful tough job making a case" of predatory pricing.
  9. Even if Monfort had alleged real below-cost predatory pricing, said Justice Brennan, "we doubt" whether the facts supported the claim.
  10. The savageness of this case, in which the boy's penis was cut off, has sparked major proposals in the current Legislature for dealing with predatory sex offenders.
  11. However, this does not prevent new entrants being deterred by unfair competition, predatory pricing, capacity saturation and denial of prime-time slots at major airports.
  12. U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie on Friday also found sufficient evidence of predatory price-cutting and price discrimination in American's SABRE reservation system to proceed to trial on those claims.
  13. But it will also be increasingly necessary to prevent predatory behaviour as the industry consolidates into a smaller number of larger groups.
  14. Del Monte said it would aggressively defend "against this and any other predatory activity." Also, a court-appointed administrator in the U.K. denied that Del Monte is on the auction block and said he hadn't heard from Chiquita regarding any offer.
  15. In its antitrust suit, it charged Walsh with grabbing customers through "predatory pricing" and by pirating away key IDC executives with the promise of fat salaries.
  16. An appeals court affirmed the decision, finding Monfort threatened by "a form of predatory pricing."
  17. "We not see the predatory practices that occurred in the 70s recurring in the 90s," he said.
  18. In 1989, Viral Response filed a complaint with the FTC charging Procter & Gamble Co. and its Richardson Vicks Inc. unit with predatory tactics.
  19. In its suit, EDS says Perot Systems employees are doing just that, calling on EDS customers and engaging in "predatory hiring" of EDS personnel in violation of the buy-out agreements.
  20. In both countries, rival leasing companies alleged that IBM's leasing rates are predatory and that it overcharges them on computer sales.
  21. Nicholas Hytner's strutting, rapping production portrayed a predatory jungle where people are commodities, where the innocent survive only by learning duplicity, and where the clowns in authority are not only buffoons but can be brutes as well.
  22. LAST year's great escape by the Arab nations of the Gulf from the predatory grasp of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq is not providing the long-term relief that seemed probable at the time.
  23. With most analysts regarding all parties relatively immune from predatory advances, hence rejecting a primarily defensive rationale, the search is on for concrete advantages. There has been a degree of basic co-operation already.
  24. The European Community Commission inspected IBM's computer leasing operations in the Netherlands last year in response to complaints by three Dutch leasing companies that IBM engaged in predatory pricing.
  25. The purpose of these laws is to defend American companies against loss of home market share to predatory pricing or to foreign producers that benefit from the deep pockets of their own governments through targeted subsidies.
  26. What may worry BP more is that Kuwait, known as an opportunistic and shrewd investor, would sell its stake to another company with more predatory aims.
  27. Second, we can testify that if sexually predatory attitudes permeate a man's interactions with women, he will lead an unnaturally impaired life.
  28. "If AT&T wanted to price in a predatory manner, they can do that."
  29. The scale of the museum's wealth means that however carefully it buys, it will be seen as predatory and reactionary in its desire to own so much for itself.
  30. James Mooney, president of the National Cable Television Association, said competition from telephone companies, which also have local monopolies, "would be an invitation to predatory behavior not seen in this country since the day of the robber barons."
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