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UKRapacity
/ɹæpˈæsɪti/
/ɹæpˈæsɪɾi/Rapacity
[NOUN]1
reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Examples
1. And what this means is that the rapacity mechanism dominates.
2. It's possible that there is a rapacity effect in some places, and an opportunity costs in other places.
3. And if you remember from the previous slides, what this means is that, indeed, ethnic conflict in Myanmar is underlined by economic motives, and the rapacity effect dominates.
4. The first is the so called rapacity effect.
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