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Meanings of cut-throat in English

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Usage of cut-throat in English
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It has also spawned a judge-led inquiry into Britain's cut-throat newspaper industry.
Reuters
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Saracco: Saracco: very possibly a strip of the posterity of cut-throat Moors.
Vittoria — Volume 1
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This doubtless tended to eliminate cut-throat competition and thus stabilize the industry.
A History of Trade Unionism in the United States
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Their prose had the flash of rapiers; his was a cut-throat razor.
The Guardian
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If that horrible cut-throat should appear, this good gentleman will protect me.
The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales
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Not one of the daubs of that assassin, that cut-throat, that Italian?
The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories
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In the cut-throat tech world, disruption is all and damn the begrudgers.
The Irish Times
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But the booming market is also highly fragmented and characterised by cut-throat competition.
Reuters
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The arcade now assumes the aspect of a regular cut-throat alley.
Theresa Raquin
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Despite the cut-throat competition the Koreans have plans for world domination.
The Irish Times
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And all this in an industry that happily declares itself to be 'cut-throat'.
The Guardian
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Or maybe it's just savvy Beltway politics as usual in a cut-throat world.
Wired
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Rock is a very cut-throat industry, but I had a lot of fun.
The Guardian
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Yes; a drunken, gambling, cut-throat rowdy as ever grew ripe for the gallows.
Two Years Ago, Volume I
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The practices are familiar to many in the cut-throat world of tabloid journalism.
Reuters
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Hislop records a case of cut-throat in a man of seventy-four.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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