Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A children's game at cards.
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- noun A
card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards
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Examples
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What's more, reasons unknown to me, the most prestigious and wealthy schools tend to interview and make offers later; I've heard it suggested that they are free-riding on the work of others to figure out who the market considers desirable or playing strategic beggar-my-neighbor, but that seems harsh.
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No, Mr. Bergsten, reaction to it is better known as 'tit-for-tat' - or 'beggar-my-neighbor' policies: policies that attempt to remedy economic problems in one country in ways which tend to worsen the problems of other countries.
Microsoft's Actions Show America's True Colors in China 2010
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EU governments are aiming to cut both debt and fiscal deficits on a scale that threatens beggar-my-neighbor deflation, denies their 2008 commitment to a European Economic Recovery Plan, and risks a double dip recession and a massive crisis of confidence both in the markets and in governments.
Stuart Holland: Europe Needs a Gestalt Shift Stuart Holland 2010
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EU governments are aiming to cut both debt and fiscal deficits on a scale that threatens beggar-my-neighbor deflation, denies their 2008 commitment to a European Economic Recovery Plan, and risks a double dip recession and a massive crisis of confidence both in the markets and in governments.
Stuart Holland: Europe Needs a Gestalt Shift Stuart Holland 2010
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No, Mr. Bergsten, reaction to it is better known as 'tit-for-tat' - or 'beggar-my-neighbor' policies: policies that attempt to remedy economic problems in one country in ways which tend to worsen the problems of other countries.
Ann Pettifor: Microsoft's Actions Show America's True Colors in China 2010
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Any retreat from globalization, he said, would risk a return to the beggar-my-neighbor economic politics of the 1920s and 1930s, which led directly to World War II. It's easy to read the tale of the two demonstrations as a symbol of the power of commercial interests, and the weakness of their opponents.
Playing To The Crowd 2008
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Last century's interwar years produced protectionist beggar-my-neighbor policies which only intensified the Depression and set nation against nation.
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Competitive wage reductions, competitive tariffs, competitive liquidation of foreign assets, competitive currency deflations, competitive economy campaigns - all are of this beggar-my-neighbor description.
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Consequently, solutions suggested by Germany hover around a zero-sum world of beggar-my-neighbor policies in which a country attempts to play to its benefit alone by increasing market share from the rest of the region.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page Aly Iman 2010
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Consequently, solutions suggested by Germany hover around a zero-sum world of beggar-my-neighbor policies in which a country attempts to play to its benefit alone by increasing market share from the rest of the region.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page Aly Iman 2010
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