cutthroat
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7.8
- adjective
- /ˈkʌtˌθroʊt/
:
despiadado
- In addition, managed care plans (such as HMOs) themselves have perished from this cutthroat competition.
- cutthroat competition
Like right now she's just so harsh, like cutthroat.
- Like right now she's just so harsh, like cutthroat.
- And I think that sort of cutthroat nature is why a lot of people don't agree with him.
- Boy, Doc, you sound pretty cutthroat.
- I just, there's too much money, there's too much business, there's too much cutthroat type of stuff going on out here.
- The only way to get on as an artist in this cutthroat, deeply competitive world was to make friends with the right people.
- You know, maybe we can help the property manager be a little bit more stern and professional, but not completely cutthroat.
- There was like a a cutthroat, angry nature.
- It's painful, it's gross, it's impolite and it's cutthroat.
- I mean it was pretty cutthroat E and not it was always very sort of outwardly supportive and it was a supportive department for sure.
Examples
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When the economy opened up, overall capacity far exceeded demand, and competition became cutthroat.
Academic text (2005) -
The competition for the seventeen spots that opened each fall in the Billy Goat room was cutthroat.
Fiction book (2002) -
We need to be more cutthroat in the way that we do politics.
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I told you I was in a cutthroat business.
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The only way to get on as an artist in this cutthroat, deeply competitive world was to make friends with the right people.
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Sullivan describes his clients as the good guys in the otherwise cutthroat world of mortgage rescue.
Academic text (2007) -
Insurance is a cutthroat business, and they don't want their competitors to get wind of this.
Fiction book (1995) -
That's because it takes a hardened-by-life type like me to be able to survive the cutthroat world of Hollywood.
Fiction book (1999) -
In the cutthroat world of finance, only the most ruthless succeed.
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She realized she had to adopt a cutthroat mentality to compete with her colleagues.
Synonyms
152
4.9
Not feeling sorry for others and hurting them on purpose
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7.6
A situation in which people or companies try very hard to beat each other
Not showing pity or kindness when trying to win
Someone who acts in a pushy way to get ahead and promote their own interests
Antonyms
Compounds
A business situation where companies compete very hard and may hurt competitors to win
How Ruthless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cutthroat as an adjective means 'ruthlessly competitive' because it compares fierce, unfair behaviour to a person who would cut another's throat, so a 'cutthroat' market or game is one where people try to win at any cost.