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Word: graft
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Meaning:
Noun:
- countable A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
- countable A con job.
- countable A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
- slang A cut of the take (money).
- countable A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
- colloquial Hard work.
- uncountable Corruption in official life.
- uncountable Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
- slang A criminal?s special branch of practice
- US|politics A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
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Verb:
- intransitive To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
- nautical To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
- surgery To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
- transitive To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
- transitive To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
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