graft

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Our municipalities are largely rotten with graft, and the graft is accompanied by its inevitable handmaids, extravagance and inefficiency.

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  1. transitive verb To unite (a shoot or bud) with a growing plant by insertion or by placing in close contact.
  2. transitive verb To join (a plant or plants) by such union.
  3. transitive verb To transplant or implant (living tissue, for example) surgically into a bodily part to replace a damaged part or compensate for a defect.
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  • Bring back national service show those lazy civi f@ckers what team work and graft is all about. fat f@cker was late again this morning not a f@cking word said again. —  Army Rumour Service
  • Suzan Mazur: The extended synthesis has been described as a graft onto the —  ScreenTalk
  • The lives of the Clintons have played like the soap 'Days of our Lives' with all the intrigue surrounding murder, graft, theft of FBI Files, suicide and a whole slue of 'gates' culminating in 'Monicagate' and impeachment. —  The Conservative Voice Columns
  • This is the imposthume of much greed and graft, and of the geopolitical power games played by the bipartisan elite in Washington. —  Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque
  • Corneal graft, also known as keratoplasty, is one of the most common transplant procedures in humans and is the only available treatment for a number of corneal disorders. —  Health News from Medical News Today
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graft:   grafted ·  grafting
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Etymologies (8)

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  1. Middle English graften, alteration of graffen, probably from Old French grafier, from graffe, stylus, graft (from its shape), from Latin graphium, stylus; see graffito. N., Middle English grafte, alteration of graffe, from Old French.
  2. Origin unknown.

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  1. A later and now the usual form of graff, with excrescent t, prob. first in the verb, where it prob. arose ȯut of the past participle graft for graffed: see graff, v. t.
  2. A later and now the usual form of graff: cf. graft, n.
  3. Middle English graft, Anglo-Saxon græft (not recorded) = Icelandic gröftr (genitive graftar), digging, from Anglo-Saxon grafan, Icelandic grafa, dig: see grave, v.
  4. Prob. a generalized use of graft, digging. Compare the figurative use of diggings for a location or region where work is carried on.
  5. graft, n.
  6. An extension of graft, n., 2. Compare the like development of job, ‘a piece of work,’ to job, ‘a piece of corruption.’
 

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