26984 words

graft

12 definitions • 11 examples
1
a piece of healthy skin or bone cut from one part of a person's body and used to repair another damaged part, or a piece cut from one living plant and attached to another plant so that it grows there:

Examples:

skin graft He has had a skin graft on his badly burned arm.
2
work:

Examples:

hard graft I've never been afraid of hard graft.
3
the act of getting money or advantage through the dishonest use of political power and influence:

Examples:

The whole government was riddled with graft, bribery, and corruption.
4
to take and put in place a graft:

Examples:

be grafted on/onto Skin was removed from her leg and grafted on/onto her face.
5
to join or add something new:

Examples:

graft something onto something The management tried unsuccessfully to graft new working methods onto the existing ways of doing things.
6
to work hard:

Examples:

graft (away) It was very sad that after spending all those years grafting (away), he died so soon after he retired.
7
(esp. in politics) the obtaining of money or advantage through the dishonest use of power and influence:

Examples:

His administration was marked by widespread graft and crime.
8
a piece of healthy skin or bone cut usually from a person’s own body and used to repair a damaged part on that person
9
A graft is also a piece cut from a living plant and fixed to another plant so that it grows there.
11
hard work:

Examples:

The students, all from poor families, tell stories of hard graft and achievement.
12
to work hard:

Examples:

We'll have to graft like mad to be ranked in the top ten this year.

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