predation

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When this is done deliberately to kill off an economic competitor, it's called predatory dumping; you could say that the victims of our predation are the generations to come, which are at a decided disadvantage in any competition with the present.

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  1. noun The act or practice of plundering or marauding.
  2. noun The capturing of prey as a means of maintaining life.

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  • For most of their lives they had been protected from human predation, and knew nothing of the uses of a rifle. —  BEN BOVA
  • Here is the definition of the word "predation," according to several different dictionaries, including Websters: —  portland indymedia - features
  • Although the feds have had to recapture some wolves which have repeatedly been involved in predation, their often slow response has led to examples of ranchers and farmers acting to protect their livestock and their families. —  Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog
  • Iceland's financial crisis is the result of lawless predation, an "international (austerity demanding) Ponzi scheme" under rigged market rules imposing public and private "asset stripping" to pay debt. —  LA IMC
  • This is predation, the very opposite of "classical free market policy." —  LA IMC
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  1. Middle English predacion, from Latin praedātiō, praedātiōn-, from praedātus, past participle of praedārī, to plunder; see predatory.

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  1. from Latin prædatio(n-), a plundering, from prædari, past participle prædatus, plunder: see prey, v.
 

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