noun🔗Share人食い, カニバリズムThe act of eating another of one's own species."The tribe's practice of cannibalism horrified the explorers. "その部族の人食いの習慣は探検家たちをぞっとさせた。biologyanimalhumanfoodactioninhumanbodyculturereligionritualChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share人食い, カニバリズムAn act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind."The company's aggressive expansion tactics were seen by some as a form of cannibalism, as they were eating up the market share of its own smaller branches. "その会社の積極的な拡大戦略は、一部の人々から、自社の小規模支店の市場シェアを食い尽くすカニバリズムの一形態と見なされた。inhumanactionbiologyorganismanimalhumanChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share単語の省略、単語の融合In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same. For example, "Look, an MIT shirt" for "Look, an MIT T-shirt".""Look, an MIT shirt" is an example of cannibalism in speech. "「見て、MITシャツ」は、言葉における単語の省略の例です。linguisticswordphoneticslanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
