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  • 21Greedy — This is an early and quite rare Anglicized form of the Old Irish surname MacRiada which is more commonly recorded as Grady or Gready . The name derives from the Counties of Mayo and Roscommon. The name probably is a metonymic for a horseman, from …

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  • 22greedy — adjective 1) a greedy eater Syn: gluttonous, ravenous, voracious; informal piggish, piggy 2) his greedy manager Syn: avaricious, acquisitive, covetous, grasping, materialistic, mercenary; informal …

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  • 23greedy — /ˈgridi/ (say greedee) adjective (greedier, greediest) 1. very eager for wealth; avaricious. 2. greatly desiring food or drink. –phrase 3. greedy of, keenly desirous of; eager for: greedy of praise. {Middle English gredy, from Old English grēdig …

  • 24greedy — adj. (greedier, greediest) 1 having or showing an excessive appetite for food or drink. 2 wanting wealth or pleasure to excess. 3 (foll. by for, or to + infin.) very keen or eager; needing intensely (greedy for affection; greedy to learn).… …

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  • 25greedy — adjective a) Having greed; consumed by selfish desires b) Tending to match as much text as possible. Syn: gluttonous See Also: greed, greediness, greedy guts …

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  • 26greedy — adj. Greedy is used with these nouns: ↑eye, ↑lawyer, ↑pig …

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  • 27greedy — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Avaricious] Syn. avid, grasping, rapacious, selfish, miserly, parsimonious, close, close fisted, tight, tight fisted, niggardly, exploitative, grudging, sordid, mercenary, illiberal, stingy, covetous, penurious,… …

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  • 28greedy —  a verb, to long for, as, I don t greedy it …

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  • 29Greedy reductionism — is a term coined by Daniel Dennett, in his 1995 book Darwin s Dangerous Idea, to refer to a kind of erroneous reductionism. Whereas good reductionism means explaining a thing in terms of what it reduces to (for example, its parts and their… …

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  • 30Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing in Wireless Networks — (engl. „Greedy Perimeter Wegewahl in Funknetzen“, Abkürzung GPSR) ist ein Routing Protokoll für mobile Ad hoc Netze, also ein Verfahren, mit dem Datenpakete in spontan aufgebauten Rechnernetzen an ihr Bestimmungsziel gelotst werden sollen. Das… …

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