Usually means: Exploiting others for personal gain.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. preying: Merriam-Webster
  2. preying: Collins English Dictionary
  3. preying: Vocabulary.com
  4. Preying, preying: Wordnik
  5. preying: Wiktionary
  6. Preying, preying: Dictionary.com
  7. Preying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Preying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. preying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. preying: FreeDictionary.org
  11. preying: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preying: Legal dictionary

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  1. preying: Encyclopedia

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  1. preying: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prey)

noun:  That which is or may be seized by animals to be devoured.
noun:  A person or thing given up as a victim.
noun:  A living thing, usually an animal, that is eaten by another living thing.
noun:  (archaic) Anything, such as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; something taken by force from an enemy in war.
noun:  (archaic) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
noun:  The victim of a disease.
verb:  (intransitive) To act as a predator.
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