Definitions for greed
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1. greed(noun)

   excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves

2. avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia(noun)

   reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

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1. greed(Noun)

   A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.

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1. Greed(noun)

   an eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain

Origin: [Akin to Goth. grdus hunger, Icel. grr. 34. See Greedy.]

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1. Greed

   Greed is the inordinate desire to possess wealth, goods, or objects of abstract value with the intention to keep it for one's self, far beyond the dictates of basic survival and comfort. It is applied to a markedly high desire for and pursuit of wealth, status, and power. As a secular psychological concept, greed is, similarly, an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs. It is typically used to criticize those who seek excessive material wealth, although it may apply to the need to feel more excessively moral, social, or otherwise better than someone else.

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1. edger

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of greed in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of greed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of greed in a Sentence

1. Craig Mitnick:

   Greed and ego are too often the downfall of mankind

2. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

   To greed, all nature is insufficient. - Hercules Oetaeus

3. RAMANA PEMMARAJU:

   You can satiate a Man's hunger but never his greed!

4. Some Israelis:

   It also includes an ugly anti-Semitic trope of Jewish 'greed'.

5. Jeff Davidson:

   We will flush greed out of our system or be flushed away by it.

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