0 a very strong wish to continuously get more of something, especially food or money: --
He was unsympathetic with many house sellers, complaining that they were motivated by greed.
I don't know why I'm eating more - it's not hunger, it's just greed!
1 a strong desire to continually get more of something, esp. money: --
However, that will not happen, because the country is driven by capitalist greed, which in turn billows out war and violence.
Despite her warnings he destroyed out of greed a tube that was dripping oil.
In their selfabsorption they have convinced themselves that ' greed is acceptable if it includes a cognate self-actualizing component ' (p. 24).
The offer of a bounty preying on human greed brings in its wake its own dangers.
The primary focus on profit maximization, however, overlooks many nonprofit objectives involved in resource allocation and social preferences beyond greed.
And it hasn't just been domination and greed all the way.
There wasn't much hubris and fear and greed in his theories.
The cunning speculator who places bets on the victims' greed or gullibility has consequently received more attention than perhaps more exculpable, less glamorous, moral vacillators.
