OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 15607

parasite

/ˈpæɹəˌsaɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
parásito
A person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back.
A royalist who publicly called for a military intervention to protect the parasite monarchy.
Of all the corrupting effects of wealth there is none worse than this, that it makes the wealthy (and their parasites) think in some way divine, or at least a lovely character of t…
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