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Перевод: acquisitive

[прилагательное]
жадно впитывающий; восприимчивый; стяжательский

Тезаурус:

1. Thirdly, it is also possible that the advances in birth control operating within the climate of an "acquisitive society" might well have permitted couples to plan their family lives in such a way as to allow them to enjoy the consumer benefits of society.
2. Old, or unearned, money tends to be neither acquisitive nor outward-going, whereas new money tends to be both.
3. Was it the prosperity of an acquisitive society prepared to forsake children, or the depression which accounted for the inter-war population trends?
4. Three companies have been mentioned as possible bidders: Philip Morris, the US-based food and tobacco concern and owners of Miller Brewing, Anheuser Busch of the US, the world's number one brewer, and Hanson, the acquisitive UK company that once owned Courage.
5. Yes, for she has money and an acquisitive nature.
6. Page 29 US purchase for FKB: Acquisitive sales promotion company FKB Group has broken into the lucrative US medical promotions market with the 41m (26m) acquisition of a specialist marketing company.
7. Secondly, this decline in fertility did occur in depressed industrial towns and among industrial groups whose prospects of unemployment were high and whose access to the "acquisitive way of life" must have been limited by the fact that they were receiving some form of unemployment or health benefit and struggling to survive.
8. THE ACQUISITIVE advertising and marketing company WCRS Group more than doubled pre-tax profits to 38.1m for the year to June, largely the result of a first full year contribution from its French affiliate Carat.
9. Another approach is typified by BTR, an acquisitive British conglomerate which this month made a 1.6 billion bid for Norton, an American abrasives group.
10. Impressive though they are, Hanson and BTR are too acquisitive to be comfortable models for ordinary industrialists.
11. Growing more acquisitive in the present, they prepared to disown the past; the future was to be different, both for themselves and their children, and they had to run to catch up with it.
12. He is reluctant to preach, but if his lifestyle conveys anything, it is an emphatic witness to the importance of the things of the spirit; a disclaimer of the acquisitive society.
13. It seems doubtful, except in the case of the more prosperous areas, whether the acquisitive nature of society was as important to the working class as was the need to survive and adjust to the depression.