definition: take other people's things as your own.
Pronunciation: ju wei jǐ yǒu
Synonym: selfish and profit-seeking at the expense of others
antonym: self-denial, integrity and self-sacrifice
Example:
1. Plan to take it back for yourself in the future.
2. I finally took this room for myself.
3. The bully has another trick, that is, take your achievements as his own.
4. She always takes the work we do together as her own.
5. Don't let anyone take the public welfare for himself.
6. Most women can borrow a man's heart, but unfortunately few can keep it for themselves.
7. In contrast, finding a China buyer to keep Rio Tinto for yourself is a more attractive result.
8. They said that although the relative kept some of the gifts for himself, most of them were handed over to the relevant officials.
9. You may wonder why I want to make such a promising idea public instead of keeping it for myself.
1. First of all, they received coins of $1 each, and learned that after the research, they could keep whatever money was left.
11. Based on these considerations, the uneasy supervisor may overuse his authority, belittle the contribution of outstanding talents, and even take their achievements for himself.
12. Corrupt food rationers will take food for themselves and sell it on the black market, instead of selling it to people who should get it.
13. The compensation paid by the non-performing loan issuer was taken by the bank instead of flowing to the investors, which eventually led to the loss of $22.5 billion.
14. Sha Jiahan's behavior is typical of rent-seeking. The way to accumulate wealth is not to create wealth by providing better services to customers, but to take the wealth created by others as his own.
15. The National Weather Service of the United States often takes the recorded data collected from various weather stations as its own, so that it can be used for various commercial purposes, and only those higher-level composite data products are provided to the scientific community.
16. Students who shop in ordinary stores are quite honest, while environmental consumers cheat excessively and even steal the extra money, and keep the part that is nearly one-third higher than their due income for themselves.
17. But putting down thousands of tents and declaring that you and your friends will stay there all the time always makes people wonder if there is an attempt to take the public place for yourself.
18. Many people are complaining that private equity firms keep transaction fees for themselves.
19. When oil and mineral companies exploit resources in this country, they have to pay the land owners the mining fees through tribal leaders, but these leaders keep the mining fees for themselves.
2. Some traditional authorities are making new laws to strengthen their land rights and make them take the land for themselves.