词汇 | cut-throat |
释义 | cut-throat adjective[ usually before noun ] (US alsocutthroat)uk /ˈkʌtθrəʊt/us competing in a strong and unfair way, without considering any harm caused to others: a cut-throat business/market/world Scrapping of price fixing legislation led to a cut-throat battle for supermarket customers. Many firms have fallen victim to cut-throat competition. Examples of cut-throatcut-throat Market behaviour, which may be unabashedly cut-throat, fosters very different interpersonal values. Cartelists were also injured by cut-throat low-wage/ low-price competition associated with deflation and unemployment. Queenly adulation certainly doesn't focus on these women for their professionalism, their ability to make a place for themselves in a cut-throat business world. We remember what took place in the years between the wars when cut-throat competition brought about dire economic circumstances in both industries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The one thing known by anyone who buys petrol for his car is that there is cut-throat competition amongst garages on the petrol distribution side. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The deregulation of financial services led to cut-throat competition between the building societies and the new lenders who moved into the housing market. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To-day it is not a question of cut-throat competition between collieries at home for sales and profits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Everyone admits that cut-throat competition, like war, is merely ruining civilisation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The only way of reviving the industry hitherto attempted is by cut-throat competition, thoroughly unorganised—the so-called policy of attrition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The price competition is cut-throat, not only in the road-transport sector but also between the different modalities. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English This was a wide-ranging advantage in avoiding cut-throat competition with each country endeavouring to export its own unemployment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But cut-throat competition is inevitably both wasteful and expensive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot get away from the fact that if we have cut-throat competition the tendency is to lower quality. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the depressed conditions of the 1920s and 1930s industries got together to limit cut-throat competition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The protection afforded against this cut-throat competition has been of very great significance and a great advantage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of cut-throat These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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