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单词 grafter
释义
grafter
noun[C]
UKinformal
uk
/ˈɡrɑːf.tər/us
/ˈɡræf.tɚ/
a hardworker:
Bassett was arealgrafter andworkedvery hard.
Now MP for Hampstead and Highgate, she has awell-earnedreputationfor being a grafter.
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graft
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  • "Dad was a grafter," Miles says. "He gave us theworkethic".
  • I got him ajobon afarmand he was arealgrafter.
  • Ateamneedsgrafters as well assuperstars.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Workers in general
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  • anti-labour
  • beaver
  • cutter
  • drudge
  • gang
  • labour
  • machinist
  • manpower
  • night shift
  • peon
  • relay
  • shift
  • skeleton staff
  • staff
  • staffing
  • team player
  • the shop floor
  • workhorse
  • working party
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(Definition ofgrafterfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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We are perpetually declaring that the middlemen grafters are preventing the producers from getting the best price and the consumers from getting a cheap commodity.
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In the same way, these new tissue grafters want to be able to choose the best tissues for their purposes.
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There are those who are reaping vast rewards, and they are not the hard grafters but the slick operators.
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Only experienced grafters need apply.
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The salesmen, the earners and the grafters who drive a company car cannot leave it in the company car park; they have to take it home.
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The bonds were issued and sold and the money pocketed by early grafters.
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Sinners of this category include counterfeiters, hypocrites, grafters, seducers, sorcerers and simonists.
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It is best done by an experiencedgrafter, as it is possible to accidentally drive the tool too far into the stock, reducing the scion's chance of survival.
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