Word: greedy
Phonetic:
/ˈɡɹiːdi/
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Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
Prone to overeat.
Tending to match as much text as possible. Example: This regular expression performs a greedy match.
(of an algorithm) That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.
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