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n. - The act of eating another animal in the same species, as in a man eating another man.

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  • Verb (used with object) : to cannibalize old airplanes for replacement parts. ,New products introduced in the next six months will cannibalize sales from established lines
  • However, it also said the so-called cannibalization rate of the low-end notebook market will be in the 30% to 40% range.
  • Because of overexpansion that caused what is referred to as "cannibalization"
  • Is it all macro related or is there something else going on such as kind of cannibalization?
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