Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Medical treatment.
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- verb Present participle of
leech .
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Examples
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CSX Transportation has agreed to pay the District $7.5 million toward environmental cleanup programs as part of a settlement reached this month after D.C. inspectors witnessed pollutants leeching from the company's Benning Road rail yard.
CSX Transportation to pay D.C. $7.5M for environmental cleanup of rail yard Christy Goodman 2010
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CSX Transportation has agreed to pay the District $7.5 million toward environmental cleanup programs as part of a settlement reached this month after D.C. inspectors witnessed pollutants leeching from the company's Benning Road rail yard.
CSX Transportation to pay D.C. $7.5M for environmental cleanup of rail yard Christy Goodman 2010
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Owen, leeching is fine, I’ll look for your trackback.
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LinkDeny filter for Microsoft IIS Web servers is to block the illegal theft of bandwidth (called leeching), usually in the form of direct image hotlinking.
[200 OK] 2009
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She feels that those like her who spent years working to help people back into work are having their contributions reduced to "leeching".
Thousands of women fear bleak future as they bear the brunt of public sector cuts 2010
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And this isn't a matter of one type of blogger (the indie), simply "leeching" content from the content generators, since Big Media bloggers are just as often doing their own opinionizing as much as they are reporting real news.
Are the Days of Independent Political Bloggers Numbered? Digby and Atrios Chime In 2009
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Note 63: For Gaskin's disapproval of what might be termed astral parasitism — a case of a man who sustained himself psychically by "leeching" the "juice" of a "high-energy woman," see Monday Night Class, [8 – 9]. back
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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LOL ... and then go crying to the "rogue regulator", that the "leeching" employees aren't paying enough!
ZDNet Australia 2010
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LOL ... and then go crying to the "rogue regulator", that the "leeching" employees aren't paying enough!
ZDNet Australia 2010
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LOL ... and then go crying to the "rogue regulator", that the "leeching" employees aren't paying enough!
ZDNet Australia 2010
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