Betydelse av graft på svenska

• 0 a piece of healthy skin or bone cut from one part of a person's body and used to repair another damaged part, or a piece cut from one living plant and attached to another plant so that it grows there:

  • He has had a skin graft on his badly burned arm.

• 1 work:

  • I've never been afraid of hard graft.

• 2 the act of getting money or advantage through the dishonest use of political power and influence:

  • The whole government was riddled with graft, bribery, and corruption.

• 3 to take and put in place a graft:

  • Skin was removed from her leg and grafted on/onto her face.

  • The management tried unsuccessfully to graft new working methods onto the existing ways of doing things.

• 4 to work hard:

  • It was very sad that after spending all those years grafting (away), he died so soon after he retired.

• 5 (esp. in politics) the obtaining of money or advantage through the dishonest use of power and influence:

  • His administration was marked by widespread graft and crime.

• 6 a piece of healthy skin or bone cut usually from a person’s own body and used to repair a damaged part on that person

• 7 illegal activities involving dishonest use of power and money:

  • Corruption in government is common, and several elected officials are suspected of graft.

  • graft charge/allegation/investigation

• 8 hard work:

  • The students, all from poor families, tell stories of hard graft and achievement.

• 9 to work hard:

  • We'll have to graft like mad to be ranked in the top ten this year.