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Predation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act or practice of plundering or marauding.

n. The capturing of prey as a means of maintaining life.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. act of predating

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of pillaging.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery; predatory incursion.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey

n. an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding

Word Usage

"After that, the second section examines what he calls predation, "the systematic abuse of public institutions for private profit or equivalently, the systematic undermining of public protection for the benefit of private clients.""

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

hunting hunt pillaging plundering pillage

Rhyme

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