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cut-throat
adjective
cut-throat
,
cut‧throat
[
usually before noun
]
a cut-throat activity or business involves people competing with each other in an unpleasant way
:
Cut-throat competition is keeping prices low.
the cut-throat world of advertising
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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