Definition of cut-throat in English:

cut-throat

nounˈkʌtθrəʊt

1dated A murderer or other violent criminal.
〈旧〉杀人犯，凶犯
a disreputable squad of thieves, cut-throats, and deserters
Example sentencesExamples
- However, when Lafitte died, so too died the protection he had provided his homeowner friends from his band of pirate cut-throats.
- With his crew of cut-throats, Sinbad attacked defenceless merchant ships and did what pirates do, thankfully omitted here because this is a U-certificate cartoon from DreamWorks.
- Not all of Condé's novels push the reader around to the same extent as do the characters of Tituba the witch or Célanire the ‘cut-throat cut-throat.’
- Amidst a crew of cut-throats and villainous slave traders, Davie feels that all is utterly hopeless and he despairs of his future alone in the world with no hope of return to his beloved homeland.
- And of course the fact that there are elections in the offing would have absolutely nothing to do with the timing of Michael's pronouncements that the group is a bunch of murderers, gangsters, cut-throats and crooks.
- Yet he ‘and his crew of financial cut-throats can loot the bank and rob 1260 depositors and you can send him to the penitentiary for only three years.’
Synonyms
murderer, killer, assassin, butcher, liquidator, executioner
thug, bravo
informal hitman
North American informal button man
literary slayer
dated homicide
2
short for cut-throat razor
Example sentencesExamples
- After first putting the fish mullet hair style on the map, company owner and hair expert Paul has evolved it into the more slick, stylish look, using his solid silver (Fish-engraved) cut-throat.
3A trout of western North America, with red or orange markings under the jaw.
山鳟，切喉鳟
Salmo clarki, family Salmonidae
Example sentencesExamples
- Rainbow, cut-throat, grayling and brown trout make their home in the Bow River and its network of streams.
- It is also a spawning and rearing habitat for three threatened salmon species, steelhead and cut-throat trout.

adjectiveˈkʌtθrəʊt

1(of a competitive situation or activity) fierce and intense; involving the use of ruthless measures.
（竞争）你死我活的
the cut-throat world of fashion
你死我活的时装界。
Example sentencesExamples
- So how does he get the press in the cut-throat competition of London Fashion Week, when there are some 70 designers showing in five days?
- With high profits, more provincial people are digging for money by setting up schools, which leads to a more cut-throat competition, said Xu.
- Some say that imitation is the highest form of flattery, but in the cut-throat arena of fashion, sorry, it's not.
- The industry at this time combined, as one critic put it, ‘the worst features of decaying and restrictive monopoly with the most brutal evils arising from cut-throat competition’.
- Couture fashion courting the cut-throat world of the seedy mafia and danger too.
- The banking arm of Scottish Widows will announce a huge 72% rise in pre-tax profits tomorrow and claim it is giving high street rivals a run for their money despite thinning margins and cut-throat competition.
- In a world marked by specialisations and cut-throat competition, students need to be cautious and decisive in choosing their career and selecting the right course, which will make them thorough professionals.
- Its home loans business has also struggled in the face of intense competition in the cut-throat British mortgage market.
- Graphics card vendors are having a hard time these days distinguishing their wares from the competition in this cut-throat margin market.
- Instead, it's instilled by coaches in the cut-throat world of Russian competitive skating.
- I do not understand if operators of those stores think that such a business model is the only way to make money and worth risking the inevitable cut-throat competition, certain to result in closure.
- Companies who hire the owner-drivers take advantage of cut-throat competition in the industry to drive down costs.
- Relying only on price will lead to cut-throat competition and disappearing profits.
- As a result, the co-op faces continuous cut-throat competition while trying to maintain a high return for its members.
- For editors facing evaporating budgets and cut-throat competition in oversaturated markets, advance screenings of movies and exclusive access to stars can be mighty tempting.
- Winans' approach is spiritual to making tough business decisions in the cut-throat entertainment industry.
- Costs, already greatly reduced, must be lowered even further if the airline is to compete in an increasingly cut-throat word.
- If you have a good memory you can probably recall the time when finals were intense, cut-throat affairs.
- In a environment of cut-throat pricing and fierce editorial battles, the average daily sale has only dropped by less than 250,000 on the same time last year.
- Financial services is a cut-throat business, with fierce competition between suppliers, which is often a good thing.
Synonyms
ruthless, merciless, pitiless, unfeeling, relentless, aggressive
North American informal badass
dog-eat-dog, fiercely competitive, intensely competitive
1. 1.1 (of a person) using ruthless methods in a competitive situation.
  （人）不择手段的
  the greedy cut-throat manufacturers he worked for
  他为之工作的那些贪婪的不择手段的厂商。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This brings the unwanted attentions of local despot Hatcher who, with his ragbag of cut-throat henchmen, sets out to destroy the heroes and nab the treasure for himself.
  The award proved that the women of cross country can be cutthroat competitors without being cutthroat people.
  First, she had to ride through the slums, where most of the cutthroat murderers and thieves lurked in the shadows.
  And the leaders of all these religions are corrupt and power-hungry, no matter how much peace and brotherly love they preach, they are cut-throat hypocrites.
  Troubles begin when cutthroat urban developers set their sights on Calvin's business.
  By no short system of events, I joined part in a clan of cutthroat thieves.
  My response to them is the same as it is to all readers, whether they be cut-throat nay-sayers or members of my lick-spittle sycophantry: To Hell with the lot of you!
  The professor said they were some of the most cutthroat students he'd ever met.
  One can't fault them for thinking that this is the most cutthroat bunch of political operators to soil the Oval Office rugs in a long time.
  London is most often portrayed as full of suspicious, cutthroat characters, men like Jaggers and his clients.
  Not even his roguish, cutthroat crew of miscreants would do that.
  Now, you might not want a cutthroat reporter like Miller as a next door neighbor.
  But at least the hippies had the good sense to get haircuts and buy suits before turning themselves into cutthroat capitalists.
  I'd call them a bunch of cutthroat pirates… except that would be awfully unfair to pirates.
  Synonyms
  ruthless, cruel, harsh, merciless, pitiless, unpitying, remorseless, cold-blooded, hard-hearted, hard, callous, brutal, brutish, severe, rigorous, draconian, unrelenting, unforgiving, unsparing, barbarous, savage, inhumane, inhuman, stony, heartless, unsympathetic, unfeeling, illiberal, uncharitable, inflexible, intolerant, rigid, stern, strict, punishing, sadistic
2Denoting a form of whist (or other card game normally for four) played by three players.
三人惠斯特牌（或其他原本四人纸牌）游戏
Example sentencesExamples
- Least is a cut-throat game in which the goal is reversed.
- The men played loud games of cutthroat euchre or pinochle under the trees while the women luxuriated by doing nothing.

词汇	cut-throat
释义	Definition of cut-throat in English: cut-throat nounˈkʌtθrəʊt 1dated A murderer or other violent criminal. 〈旧〉杀人犯，凶犯 a disreputable squad of thieves, cut-throats, and deserters Example sentencesExamples However, when Lafitte died, so too died the protection he had provided his homeowner friends from his band of pirate cut-throats. With his crew of cut-throats, Sinbad attacked defenceless merchant ships and did what pirates do, thankfully omitted here because this is a U-certificate cartoon from DreamWorks. Not all of Condé's novels push the reader around to the same extent as do the characters of Tituba the witch or Célanire the ‘cut-throat cut-throat.’ Amidst a crew of cut-throats and villainous slave traders, Davie feels that all is utterly hopeless and he despairs of his future alone in the world with no hope of return to his beloved homeland. And of course the fact that there are elections in the offing would have absolutely nothing to do with the timing of Michael's pronouncements that the group is a bunch of murderers, gangsters, cut-throats and crooks. Yet he ‘and his crew of financial cut-throats can loot the bank and rob 1260 depositors and you can send him to the penitentiary for only three years.’ Synonyms murderer, killer, assassin, butcher, liquidator, executioner thug, bravo informal hitman North American informal button man literary slayer dated homicide 2 short for cut-throat razor Example sentencesExamples After first putting the fish mullet hair style on the map, company owner and hair expert Paul has evolved it into the more slick, stylish look, using his solid silver (Fish-engraved) cut-throat. 3A trout of western North America, with red or orange markings under the jaw. 山鳟，切喉鳟 Salmo clarki, family Salmonidae Example sentencesExamples Rainbow, cut-throat, grayling and brown trout make their home in the Bow River and its network of streams. It is also a spawning and rearing habitat for three threatened salmon species, steelhead and cut-throat trout. adjectiveˈkʌtθrəʊt 1(of a competitive situation or activity) fierce and intense; involving the use of ruthless measures. （竞争）你死我活的 the cut-throat world of fashion 你死我活的时装界。 Example sentencesExamples So how does he get the press in the cut-throat competition of London Fashion Week, when there are some 70 designers showing in five days? With high profits, more provincial people are digging for money by setting up schools, which leads to a more cut-throat competition, said Xu. Some say that imitation is the highest form of flattery, but in the cut-throat arena of fashion, sorry, it's not. The industry at this time combined, as one critic put it, ‘the worst features of decaying and restrictive monopoly with the most brutal evils arising from cut-throat competition’. Couture fashion courting the cut-throat world of the seedy mafia and danger too. The banking arm of Scottish Widows will announce a huge 72% rise in pre-tax profits tomorrow and claim it is giving high street rivals a run for their money despite thinning margins and cut-throat competition. In a world marked by specialisations and cut-throat competition, students need to be cautious and decisive in choosing their career and selecting the right course, which will make them thorough professionals. Its home loans business has also struggled in the face of intense competition in the cut-throat British mortgage market. Graphics card vendors are having a hard time these days distinguishing their wares from the competition in this cut-throat margin market. Instead, it's instilled by coaches in the cut-throat world of Russian competitive skating. I do not understand if operators of those stores think that such a business model is the only way to make money and worth risking the inevitable cut-throat competition, certain to result in closure. Companies who hire the owner-drivers take advantage of cut-throat competition in the industry to drive down costs. Relying only on price will lead to cut-throat competition and disappearing profits. As a result, the co-op faces continuous cut-throat competition while trying to maintain a high return for its members. For editors facing evaporating budgets and cut-throat competition in oversaturated markets, advance screenings of movies and exclusive access to stars can be mighty tempting. Winans' approach is spiritual to making tough business decisions in the cut-throat entertainment industry. Costs, already greatly reduced, must be lowered even further if the airline is to compete in an increasingly cut-throat word. If you have a good memory you can probably recall the time when finals were intense, cut-throat affairs. In a environment of cut-throat pricing and fierce editorial battles, the average daily sale has only dropped by less than 250,000 on the same time last year. Financial services is a cut-throat business, with fierce competition between suppliers, which is often a good thing. Synonyms ruthless, merciless, pitiless, unfeeling, relentless, aggressive North American informal badass dog-eat-dog, fiercely competitive, intensely competitive 1.1 (of a person) using ruthless methods in a competitive situation. （人）不择手段的 the greedy cut-throat manufacturers he worked for 他为之工作的那些贪婪的不择手段的厂商。 Example sentencesExamples This brings the unwanted attentions of local despot Hatcher who, with his ragbag of cut-throat henchmen, sets out to destroy the heroes and nab the treasure for himself. The award proved that the women of cross country can be cutthroat competitors without being cutthroat people. First, she had to ride through the slums, where most of the cutthroat murderers and thieves lurked in the shadows. And the leaders of all these religions are corrupt and power-hungry, no matter how much peace and brotherly love they preach, they are cut-throat hypocrites. Troubles begin when cutthroat urban developers set their sights on Calvin's business. By no short system of events, I joined part in a clan of cutthroat thieves. My response to them is the same as it is to all readers, whether they be cut-throat nay-sayers or members of my lick-spittle sycophantry: To Hell with the lot of you! The professor said they were some of the most cutthroat students he'd ever met. One can't fault them for thinking that this is the most cutthroat bunch of political operators to soil the Oval Office rugs in a long time. London is most often portrayed as full of suspicious, cutthroat characters, men like Jaggers and his clients. Not even his roguish, cutthroat crew of miscreants would do that. Now, you might not want a cutthroat reporter like Miller as a next door neighbor. But at least the hippies had the good sense to get haircuts and buy suits before turning themselves into cutthroat capitalists. I'd call them a bunch of cutthroat pirates… except that would be awfully unfair to pirates. Synonyms ruthless, cruel, harsh, merciless, pitiless, unpitying, remorseless, cold-blooded, hard-hearted, hard, callous, brutal, brutish, severe, rigorous, draconian, unrelenting, unforgiving, unsparing, barbarous, savage, inhumane, inhuman, stony, heartless, unsympathetic, unfeeling, illiberal, uncharitable, inflexible, intolerant, rigid, stern, strict, punishing, sadistic 2Denoting a form of whist (or other card game normally for four) played by three players. 三人惠斯特牌（或其他原本四人纸牌）游戏 Example sentencesExamples Least is a cut-throat game in which the goal is reversed. The men played loud games of cutthroat euchre or pinochle under the trees while the women luxuriated by doing nothing.
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