0 having or showing a strong wish to take things for yourself, usually using unfair methods or force: --
a rapacious landlord/businessman
On this rapacious approach there are two checks.
They are totally incapable of deciding whether they are rapacious commercial enterprises or whether they have a more responsible rôle in the economy.
If that is so, it will not satisfy the grievances of even the least rapacious of men.
That will be admitted among even the most rapacious of financiers.
Some public utility companies are extraordinarily rapacious profit-making concerns.
It is the basic economics of exploitation — when the opportunity is available, in times of shortage, the private sector is rapacious.
Those who are fortunate are catered for by rapacious landlords who can earn a great deal of money by letting accommodation on a short-term basis.
The hydra-headed monster of nationalism is a rapacious beast which, when given the opportunity to feed, tends to devour peoples, populations and nations.
