parasitic

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The tangible result was the formation of two as yet inchoate elements, representing the extremes of ideas and of interests The first of these elements--that can with equal justice be called the parasitic or the middleman class--consisted in itself of several sorts of people.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a parasite.
  2. adjective Caused by a parasite: parasitic diseases.

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  • A PhD position is available (3 years) in a young group studying the interaction between plant-parasitic nematodes and their hosts. —  Naturejobs - All Jobs
  • If you are interested in the idea of parasitic power harvesting, take a look at these previous articles: —  Science Fiction in the News
  • Barrett instantly exerts a parasitic, vampiric influence on the household, smothering Tony with attention, getting subtly above himself, and displaying to Susan a studied air of dumb insolence. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • By casting an entire people as a parasitic infestation, by demonizing, delegitimizing, and dehumanizing them at home, in school, in the mosque and in the media, the quarter-century-old routine of Israel-hatred, added to 1,400 years of traditional Islamic anti-Semitism, has prepared in the minds of Iranians and their neighboring coreligionists the moral ground for the eradication of the state of Israel. —  بالاترین
  • It's a parasitic organism, and as all parasitic organisms do, it will continue to allow the host survive until it can either find another host or it's forcefully removed. —  Dealbreaker
 

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  1. = Frenchparasitique = Spanish Portuguese parasitico = Italian parassitico, from Latin parasiticus, from Greek παρασιττκός, parasitic, from παράσιτος, a parasite: see parasite.
 

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