PREDATORY


Meaning of PREDATORY in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

fish

Please try to avoid feeding aggressive, predatory fish such as Piranha or Lionfish with other live fish.

It is well that large, predatory fish fast and the Red Tailed catfish is no exception.

One example of this concerns the deadly sea snake and a variety of predatory fish .

pricing

The parallel is with the treatment of predatory pricing in competition policy.

The welfare analysis of predatory pricing is also generally ambiguous.

The Court upheld the Commission's decision, setting criteria to identify predatory pricing .

That paper found no hard evidence linking predatory pricing and negligent auditing.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

predatory sales practices

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But however the goals of their lowland neighbours have shifted over time, they have remained essentially predatory .

Forest boy, like Forest girl, had found out too soon about the predatory appetites of the fully grown.

His smooth face was slashed open by his predatory mouth, as if an invisible hatchet were biting into fruit.

The predatory gleam in his eyes told her in no uncertain manner that he wanted her too.

This area of Falkirk has always had a resident population of these handsome but predatory birds.

This behaviour is typical of many predatory mammals - and indeed birds.

While Hyacinth awarded marks, others, just as predatory , were giving her the eye.

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