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graft2    Audio Help   [graft, grahft] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, esp. through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics, business, etc.
2.a particular instance, method, or means of thus acquiring gain or advantage.
3.the gain or advantage acquired.
4.British Slang. work; labor.
–verb (used with object)
5.to obtain by graft.
–verb (used without object)
6.to practice graft.
[Origin: 1855–60; perh. special use of graft1]

—Related forms
grafter, noun
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graft1    Audio Help   [graft, grahft] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.Horticulture.
a.a bud, shoot, or scion of a plant inserted in a groove, slit, or the like in a stem or stock of another plant in which it continues to grow.
b.the plant resulting from such an operation; the united stock and scion.
c.the place where the scion is inserted.
2.Surgery. a portion of living tissue surgically transplanted from one part of an individual to another, or from one individual to another, for its adhesion and growth.
3.an act of grafting.
–verb (used with object)
4.to insert (a graft) into a tree or other plant; insert a scion of (one plant) into another plant.
5.to cause (a plant) to reproduce through grafting.
6.Surgery. to transplant (a portion of living tissue, as of skin or bone) as a graft.
7.to attach as if by grafting: an absurdity grafted onto an otherwise coherent body of thought.
8.Nautical. to cover (a rope) with a weaving of rope yarn.
–verb (used without object)
9.to insert scions from one plant into another.
10.to become grafted.
[Origin: 1350–1400; earlier graff, ME graffe, craffe < OF graife, greffe, graffe < LL graphium hunting knife (L: stylus) < Gk grapheion, deriv. of gráphein to write; so called from the resemblance of the point of a (cleft) graft to a stylus]

—Related forms
grafter, noun

—Synonyms 10. implant, transplant, plant, join, adhere.
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Thesaurus Entries
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus - Cite This Source
Main Entry:  bribe
Part of Speech:  noun
Definition:  Money, property, or a favor given, offered, or promised to a person or accepted by a person in a position of trust as an inducement to dishonest behavior.
Synonyms:  fix, payola
Source:  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
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graft, in surgery: see transplantation, medical.

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