| 单词 | cut-throat |
| 释义 | cut-throat adjective[usually before noun] (US alsocutthroat)uk/ˈkʌtθrəʊt/uscompetingin astrongandunfairway, withoutconsideringanyharmcausedtoothers: acut-throatbusiness/market/world Scrapping ofpricefixinglegislationledto acut-throatbattleforsupermarketcustomers. Manyfirmshavefallenvictimtocut-throatcompetition. Examplesofcut-throatcut-throat Market behaviour, which may be unabashedlycut-throat, fosters very different interpersonal values. From theCambridge English Corpus Cartelists were also injured bycut-throatlow-wage/ low-price competition associated with deflation and unemployment. From theCambridge English Corpus Queenly adulation certainly doesn't focus on these women for their professionalism, their ability to make a place for themselves in acut-throatbusiness world. From theCambridge English Corpus We remember what took place in the years between the wars whencut-throatcompetition brought about dire economic circumstances in both industries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The one thing known by anyone who buys petrol for his car is that there iscut-throatcompetition amongst garages on the petrol distribution side. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The deregulation of financial services led tocut-throatcompetition between the building societies and the new lenders who moved into the housing market. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 To-day it is not a question ofcut-throatcompetition between collieries at home for sales and profits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Everyone admits thatcut-throatcompetition, like war, is merely ruining civilisation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The only way of reviving the industry hitherto attempted is bycut-throatcompetition, thoroughly unorganised—the so-called policy of attrition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The price competition iscut-throat, not only in the road-transport sector but also between the different modalities. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English This was a wide-ranging advantage in avoidingcut-throatcompetition with each country endeavouring to export its own unemployment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Butcut-throatcompetition is inevitably both wasteful and expensive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot get away from the fact that if we havecut-throatcompetition the tendency is to lower quality. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 In the depressed conditions of the 1920s and 1930s industries got together to limitcut-throatcompetition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The protection afforded against thiscut-throatcompetition has been of very great significance and a great advantage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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