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cannibalize [′kan·ə·bə‚līz] (engineering) To remove parts from one piece of equipment and use them to replace like, defective parts in a similar piece of equipment in order to keep the latter operational. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It will later expand to include household direct mail and other communications that will "hit everyone over the head with the difference between a new use that grows with new dollars and a re-constituted use that cannibalizes the existing business environment. DISCUSSIONS lately on how television cannibalizes itself (think Cartoon Network's ``Adult Swim'' or NBC's ``The Rerun Show'') only reinforce how much MTV's ``The Real World: The Lost Season'' comes a month - or year, or two - too late. But when Hatch embraced embryonic stem cell experimentation -- which cannibalizes living human embryos for medical research -- it outraged his social conservative constituency in Utah. |
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