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  • 81heat-seeking — adjective a heat seeking weapon is able to find and move towards the hot gases from an aircraft or rocket and destroy it …

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  • 82self-seeking — adjective doing things only because they will give you an advantage that other people do not have: a self seeking politician …

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  • 83self-seeking — adjective the self seeking players would get humbled fast by Coach Higgins Syn: self interested, self serving, selfish; egocentric, egotistic, egotistical, self obsessed, self absorbed; inconsiderate, thoughtless, unthinking; informal looking… …

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  • 84risk-seeking — Readiness to assume high rates of *risk in order to achieve opportunities for high *returns. Risk seeking investors are deemed to have high *risk appetites. In contrast to a *risk averse individual, for example, a risk seeker would tend to reject …

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  • 85heat-seeking — UK [ˈhiːt ˌsiːkɪŋ] / US [ˈhɪtˌsɪkɪŋ] adjective heat seeking equipment is able to find something using the heat it produces …

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  • 86heat-seeking — /ˈhit sikɪŋ/ (say heet seeking) adjective of or relating to a missile, weapon, etc., which is programmed to find a target by sensing the heat given off it …

  • 87heat-seeking — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a missile) able to detect and home in on infrared radiation emitted by a target …

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  • 88self-seeking — adj. & n. seeking one s own welfare before that of others. Derivatives: self seeker n …

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  • 89north-seeking — northˈ seeking adjective Turning towards the earth s magnetic north pole • • • Main Entry: ↑north …

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  • 90pleasure-seeking — pleasˈure seeking noun • • • Main Entry: ↑pleasure …

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