Their success was the result of years of hard graft.Ĥ (especially AmE) the use of illegal or unfair methods, especially BRIBERY, to gain advantage in business, politics, etc. removed from a living body and placed in another part of the body which has been damaged the process or result of doing this: Graft at English => English (Oxford Advanced Learners) Of Explained:ġ a piece cut from a living plant and fixed in a cut made in another plant, so that it grows there the process or result of doing this:Ī healthy shoot should form a strong graft.Ģ a piece of skin, bone, etc. Tessellation, theft, thievery, thieving, tighten, till, transplant, Stealings, stolen goods, subornation, swag, swindle, swiping, take, Spoils of office, spoils system, squeeze, stealage, stealing, Snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, splice, spoil, spoils, Scrounging, secure, set, set to, shoot, shoplifting, slush fund, Public tit, public trough, put to, racket, scam, scion, screw up, Pork-barrel legislation, pork-barreling, prize, public till, Plunder, poaching, political intrigue, pork barrel, Perks, perquisite, pickings, pilferage, pilfering, pinching, Loot, make fast, moor, nepotism, payola, penetration, perfusion, Intromission, jobbery, join, kickback, knit, liberation, lifting, Insinuation, interjection, interpolation, introduction, Infixion, infusion, injection, inoculation, insert, insertion, Impactment, implant, implantation, imposition, imposture, inarch, Gyp, gyp joint, haul, hot goods, illicit business, imp, impaction, Graft at English => English (Moby Thesaurus II) Of Explained:Ībstraction, affix, anchor, annex, annexation, appropriation,Īttach, ballot-box stuffing, belay, blackmail, boodle, boodling,īoosting, booty, bribery, bribery and corruption, bribing, bud,īunco, campaign contribution, campaign fund, cardsharping, cement,Ĭheat, cheating, cinch, clamp, clinch, conversion, conveyance,Ĭorruption, cozenage, cramp, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, dodge,Įmbedment, embezzlement, en graft, entrance, extortion, fasten,įilching, fishy transaction, fix, flam, flimflam, fraud,įraudulence, fraudulency, gerrymandering, grafting, grapple, grift, Ĥ especially AmE the practice of obtaining money or advantage by the dishonest use of influence or power: -He promised to end graft in public life.//ġ to remove a piece of skin, bone etc from part of someone's body and put it onto or into a part of their body that has been damaged: graft sth onto/to sth// -The technique involves grafting a very thin slice of bone onto the damaged knee.//Ģ to join a part of a plant or tree onto another plant or tree:ģ to add something very different to something, so that it becomes part of it: graft sth onto sth// -New elements are being grafted onto our traditional form of government.// graft sth on// -It is a seventeenth century farmhouse with some Victorian additions grafted on.//Ĥ informal especially BrE to work hard: graft off phr v// to get money or advantages from someone by the dishonest use of influence, especially political influence// Ģ a piece cut from one plant and tied to or put inside a cut in another, so that it grows there:ģ informal especially BrE hard work: -Our success has been due to sheer hard graft.
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N //ġ a piece of healthy skin or bone taken from someone's body and put in or on another part of their body that has been damaged: -Martha had to have several skin grafts. Graft at English => English (Longman) Of Explained:
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