What does cut-throat mean

Crossword clues for cut-throat

cut-throat

Cruelly competitive

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

cut-throat

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

cut-throat competition (=very strong competition)

▪ The cutthroat competition in the airline industry kept prices low for many years.

cut-throat razor

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ At the root of the problems with the old system was cut-throat competition.

▪ Confounding nearly all expectations, he and his cut-throat regime proved highly resilient.

▪ In an increasingly cut-throat environment, purely political, or ideological, considerations may be important, albeit secondary.

▪ London movie-goers gave Glengarry Glen Ross, about cut-throat estate agents, the thumbs up this week.

▪ Media Advertising is a cut-throat business and nowhere is this more evident than in the media department of a thriving agency.

▪ Shops there got off to a bad start in the weeks after currency union, many demanding cut-throat prices.

▪ This new capitalism is a cut-throat enterprise: to stay in business you must not only compete with but beat your competitors.

Wiktionary

cut-throat

a. (alternative spelling of cutthroat English)

Wikipedia

Cut-throat

Cut-throat, cutthroat or cut throat may refer to:

A murderer; one who performs the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human
Cut throat competition, for example a price race that drives competitors out of the market

Usage examples of "cut-throat".

Next morning, just as I was going to get into my carriage, a young man between twenty-five and thirty, tall and strong and broad shouldered, his eyes black and glittering, his eyebrows strongly arched, and his general air being that of a cut-throat, accosted me and begged me to step aside and hear what he had to say.

The count came in with his follower, who was sporting a sword at least forty inches long, and had all the look of a cut-throat.

At present, with each stroke of his cut-throat razor, he contemplated how to make miserable the lives of the inhabitants of Koriantura, as well as the existence of his under officer, Captain Harbin Fashnalgid.

Australian workers, was not understood by their comrades in the United Kingdom, who had to contend all their lives in free markets against the cut-throat competition of cheap labour, and who had also to put up with a steady inpour of East and South European cheap labourers.

A bit longer, and these cut-throats would turn him loose and bind Hordo and Karela in his place.

Here, when wordy discussions on all subjects under the sun were not being waged, Billy played at cut-throat Pedro, horrible fives, bridge, and pinochle.

I made haste to leave this cut-throat place, after refusing to lend Talvis a hundred Louis, which he wanted to borrow of me on the strength of the revenge I owed him.

The count came in with his follower, who was sporting a sword at least forty inches long, and had all the look of a cut-throat.

I felt that for a little more I would have boxed her ears, and the man at the house door looked very like a cut-throat.

I made haste to leave this cut-throat place, after refusing to lend Talvis a hundred Louis, which he wanted to borrow of me on the strength of the revenge I owed him.

Languages and customs might differ, but the patrons were all cut from the same cloth - bandits, thieves, cut-throats of all stripes, gamblers, whores and drunkards.

The secret was in the old cut-throat razor that she'd carefully blunted.

The secret was in the old cut-throat razor that shed carefully blunted.

His chin shone with a burnish given it by the cut-throat razor, his shirt was so crisply ironed and starched that it and crackled at each movement.

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