All 3 Uses of
predatory
in
Freakonomics
- The cause was the so-called superpredator.†
p. 1.8
- In fact, the "bloodbath" school of criminology was touting exactly the opposite theory—that an increase in the teenage share of the population would produce a crop of superpredators who would lay the nation low.†
p. 135.8 *
- The superpredator, Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, mad-cow disease, crib death: how can we fail to heed the expert's advice on these horrors when, like that mean uncle telling too-scary stories to too-young children, he has reduced us to quivers?†
p. 149.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(predator) of animals: living by hunting and eating other animals
of people or organizations: exploiting or victimizing others -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, predator can refer to a type of military drone.