CANNIBALIZE


Meaning of CANNIBALIZE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kænɪbəlaɪz ]

( cannibalizes, cannibalizing, cannibalized)

Note: in BRIT, also use 'cannibalise'

1.

If you cannibalize something, you take it to pieces and use it to make something else.

They cannibalized damaged planes for the parts.

VERB : V n

2.

If one of a company’s products cannibalizes the company’s sales, people buy it instead of any of the company’s other products. ( BUSINESS )

A website need not cannibalise existing sales.

VERB : V n

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