Dictionary entry

Green about the gills

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

(idm) ကြောက်ရွံ့၍သို့ဖျားနာ၍မျက်နှာဖြူဖပ်ဖြူရော်ဖြစ်သည်။

Definition

greed / gri:d / n [U] ~ (for sth) ( derog ) ၁။ အစား ေလာဘႀကီးမႈ။ ၂။ စည္းစိမ္ဥစၥာ၊ ဩဇာအာဏာ စသည္ ေလာဘႀကီးမႈ။ the greed with which large companies swallow up their smaller competitors ❍ She was consumed with greed and envy. ❏ greedily adv ေလာဘတႀကီး။ He ate and drank greedily. ❏ greedy adj ( -ier, -iest ) ~ (for sth) ေလာဘ ႀကီးေသာ။ အလိုႀကီးေသာ။ a greedy little boy ❍ You greedy pig! ❍ looking at the cakes with greedy eyes ❍ greedy for power ❍ greedy for information.

Examples

  1. A growing culture of corporate greed (=the greed of large companies)
  2. Their greed for power