Graft

Noun

 * 1)  A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
 * 2)  A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
 * 3)  A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
 * 4)  effort needed for doing hard work.
 * 5)  A criminal’s special branch of practice
 * 6)  Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
 * 7)  Corruption in official life.
 * 8)  A con job.
 * 9)  A cut of the take (money).
 * 10)  A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.

Verb

 * 1)  To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
 * 2)  To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
 * 3)  To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
 * 4)  To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
 * 5)  To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
 * 6) (colloquial) To cuckold, &lsquo;plant horns&rsquo; on (late 17–18 centuries)
 * 7) (colloquial) To work; esp. to work hard (mostly Australia and New Zealand: from about 1870).

Adjectives for Graft
foreign; niggling; vigorous; huge; amazing; regular; stupendous; successful.

Verbs for Graft
devise—; employ—; induce—; introduce—; support—; yield to—; —accomplishes; —attracts; —begets; —flourishes; —instils; — interests; —intrigues.

Synonyms for Graft

 * shoot, bud, scion, transplant
 * corruption, influence, bribe, favoritism.
 * booty, loot, kickback, rebate.

Thesaurus
abstraction, affix, anchor, annex, annexation, appropriation, attach, ballot-box stuffing, belay, blackmail, boodle, boodling, boosting, booty, bribery, bribery and corruption, bribing, bud, bunco, campaign contribution, campaign fund, cardsharping, cement, cheat, cheating, cinch, clamp, clinch, conversion, conveyance, corruption, cozenage, cramp, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, dodge, embedment, embezzlement, engraft, entrance, extortion, fasten, filching, fishy transaction, fix, flam, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gerrymandering, grafting, grapple, grift, gyp, gyp joint, haul, hot goods, illicit business, imp, impaction, impactment, implant, implantation, imposition, imposture, inarch, infixion, infusion, injection, inoculation, insert, insertion, insinuation, interjection, interpolation, introduction, intromission, jobbery, join, kickback, knit, liberation, lifting, loot, make fast, moor, nepotism, payola, penetration, perfusion, perks, perquisite, pickings, pilferage, pilfering, pinching, plunder, poaching, political intrigue, pork barrel, pork-barrel legislation, pork-barreling, prize, public till, public tit, public trough, put to, racket, scam, scion, screw up, scrounging, secure, set, set to, shoot, shoplifting, slush fund, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, splice, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, spoils system, squeeze, stealage, stealing, stealings, stolen goods, subornation, swag, swindle, swiping, take, tessellation, theft, thievery, thieving, tighten, till, transplant, transplantation, trice up, trim

Alternative forms

 * graff

Etymology
From graffe: <  greffe: <  graphium: <  γραφείον: < γράφειν:; probably akin to English carve:. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Compare graphic, grammar.

Noun

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Verb

 * Bosnian: ,
 * Dutch: enten
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 * Polish: zaszczepiać, szczepić
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: прививать, привить
 * Swedish: ympa


 * Finnish: tehdä elinsiirto
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 * Russian: имплантировать and
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 * Portuguese: enxertar


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