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n. - A card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards.

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  • Blind each of one eye, they set to dealing their cards for beggar-my-neighbour.
  • It would be wrong, though, to imagine that it has only been the weaker nations that have been hurt by Germany's beggar-my-neighbour policy.
  • How far beggar-my-neighbour competitive devaluations and protection will develop is hard to predict, but protectionist trends are there for all to see.
  • The capacity to look at a problem through the wrong lens and then advocate what are, in effect, go-it-alone, beggar-my-neighbour economic policies in the name of free...
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