parasitism
IPA: pɛrʌsˈɪtɪzʌm
noun
- (ecology) Interaction between two organisms, in which one organism (the parasite) benefits and the other (the host) is harmed.
- (figuratively) A similar interaction between people.
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Examples of "parasitism" in Sentences
- They pride themselves upon the parasitism which is their shame.
- IMO, passerine parasitism is mainly due to their altricial nature.
- I don't think most of what Google does in that regard could be described as parasitism or piracy. "
- In more recent versions there is provision for an operation called “injection” which generates a kind of parasitism:
- In February 1964, Brodsky was arrested on charges of "parasitism," that is, not working in any of the branches of "socialist economy."
- Secondly, however, there's the issue of what might be called parasitism: In the recent exploit, attackers used compromised FTP servers to further distribute the Zeus trojan.
- If this be the case the parasitism is the reverse of that which occurs in Cuscuta, in which the plantule draws its first nourishment from the earth, relinquishing this when sufficiently developed to enable it to draw its supply from other plants.
- Rubin doesn't have one particular business model in mind, but he borrows from biology to frame the issue as a choice between "parasitism" - an "information wants to be free" approach where content platform owners strip publishers of control over their content-and "mutualism" - a
- By the same token, maybe few people actively disagree with the notion that parasitism is bad, but neither is the denunciation of parasitism – especially on the part of what are essentially a class of poor scavengers – a theme you’ll find in film quite as often as a generic praise of individuality.
- The industrial capitalists, then, have very motive to put an end to this kind of parasitism, and to use the funds secured, through confiscatory taxation of the unearned increment of land, to lessen their own taxation, to nationalize those fundamental industries that can only be made in this way to subserve the interests of the capitalist class as a whole (instead of some part of it merely), and to undertake through government those costly enterprises which are needed by all industry, but which give too slow returns to attract the capitalist investor.
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