graft

graft1 [ græft ] noun

1. ) uncount AMERICAN INFORMAL dishonest or illegal activities in politics or business that involve giving people money or advantages in exchange for their help or support

2. ) uncount BRITISH INFORMAL effort needed for doing hard work

3. ) count a piece of skin, bone, etc. from one part of your body used to replace or repair a damaged part of your body:

skin grafts for burns victims

a ) a piece taken from a plant and joined to a cut made in another plant so that it can grow there

graft

graft 2 [ græft ] verb

1. ) transitive to take a piece of skin or bone, etc. from one part of someone's body and use it to replace or repair a damaged part of their body:

graft something onto something: Skin was grafted onto the wound to help it heal.

a ) to take a piece from a plant and join it to a cut made in another plant so that it can grow there:

graft something onto something: The frozen samples will be grafted onto existing trees.

b ) to add something and make it become a part of another thing:

graft something onto something: Many different peoples have settled here and grafted their own cultures onto native Malaysian culture.

2. ) intransitive BRITISH to work very hard

`graft off phrasal verb transitive AMERICAN INFORMAL

graft off someone to use your position in business or politics in a dishonest way in order to obtain money or advantages from someone