Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Ruthlessly acquisitive or competitive.
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- adjective harsh and
ruthless
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Examples
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And then revolutions, of the industrial and political kind, undermined such sentiments because they were useless to their aims, and the work ethic transmuted into capitalism, with its dog-eat-dog competitiveness.
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Richard Morgan made his name with "Altered Carbon" 2002 and its sequels—grim sci-fi set in a 26th-century world of dog-eat-dog capitalism.
Fantasy off the Straight and Narrow Tom Shippey 2011
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If you look back to the dog-eat-dog past of 100 years ago to the G2 today, has this change come about because those foreigners enlightened themselves morally out of racism?
Global Voices in English » China: Considering Han chauvinism 2009
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To eliminate social programs, consolidate the wealth of our country in the hands of the top 1%, and create a dog-eat-dog society where only those with money and power enjoy prosperity – and to hell with the rest of us.
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The rest is merely what you do to get by in a harsh, dog-eat-dog world.
The psychology of Paul McMullan and his phone-hacking justifications | Deborah Orr 2011
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Given the prevailing business model of copyright/royalties, and the war chests that publishers pride themselves in accumulating in the dog-eat-dog world of publish-to-parish marketing, one can see why this product had no place: no one benefits from it except Catholic people and the Catholic liturgy generally.
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Behold Cooper, the five-year-old American Shorthair photographer-puss of Seattle who's single-paw-edly proving that it is, indeed, possible for a cool cat to rise to the top in the dog-eat-dog art world.
ARTINFO: Is This Cat a Great Photographer? The Seattle Art Scene's Feline Phenomenon ARTINFO 2011
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Behold Cooper, the five-year-old American Shorthair photographer-puss of Seattle who's single-paw-edly proving that it is, indeed, possible for a cool cat to rise to the top in the dog-eat-dog art world.
ARTINFO: Is This Cat a Great Photographer? The Seattle Art Scene's Feline Phenomenon ARTINFO 2011
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Despite warnings by prescient Republican presidents like Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower, the American system has morphed quite predictably into a dog-eat-dog economic Darwinism, and the big canines have rigged the game in their favor.
Catherine Crier: Capitalists of America -- Unite! (Why Adam Smith would be marching today) Catherine Crier 2011
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Africa's contemporary leaders, or more appropriately, hyenas in designer suits and uniforms, have made Africans strangers to each other and rendered Africa a "dog-eat-dog" continent.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Referendum for Sudan, Requiem for Africa Alemayehu G. Mariam 2011
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WORD: dog-eat-dog
EXAMPLE:
' In time, the Navy would compile statistics showing that for a career Navy pilot, i.e., one who intended to keep flying for twenty years as Conrad did, there was a 23 percent probability that he would die in an aircraft accident. This did not even include combat deaths, since the military did not classify death in combat as accidental.
. . . Sometimes, when the young wife of a fighter pilot would have a little reunion with the girls she went to school with, an odd fact would dawn on her: they have not been going to funerals. And then Jane Conrad would look at Pete . . . Princeton, Class of 1953 . . . Pete had already worn his great dark sepulchral bridge coat more than most boys of the Class of '53 had worn their tuxedos. How many of those happy young men had buried more than a dozen friends, comrades, and co-workers? (Lost through violent death in the execution of everyday duties.) At the time, the 1950's, students from Princeton took great pride in going into what they considered highly competitive, aggressive pursuits, jobs on Wall, on Madison Avenue, and at magazines such as Time and Newsweek. There was much fashionably brutish talk of what "dog-eat-dog" and "cutthroat" competition they found there . . . How many would have gone to work, or stayed at work, on cutthroat Madison Avenue if there had been a 23 percent chance, nearly one chance in four, of dying from it? Gentlemen, we're having this little problem with chronic violent death . . . '
January 28, 2014