be starved

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• starved — [stɑːvd ǁ stɑːrvd] adjective cash /​credit /​capital starved JOURNALISM FINANCE used to describe organizations or industries that have very little cash, credit etc: • The capital starved San Francisco energy company finally went bust. • Cash… …   Financial and business terms

• starved — [ starvd ] adjective 1. ) INFORMAL very hungry 2. ) prevented from having enough of what you need: starved for: I m feeling starved for intelligent conversation …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• starved — starved; starved·ly; …   English syllables

• starved — index deficient, poor (underprivileged) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• Starved Rock State Park — Coordinates: 41°19′17″N 88°59′25″W / 41.32139°N 88.99028°W / 41.32139; 88.99028 …   Wikipedia

• Starved — Infobox Television show name=Starved caption=The main characters of Starved , from left to right: Billie, Dan, Sam and Adam format=Situation comedy runtime=35 minutes (with commercials) creator=Eric Schaeffer starring=Eric Schaeffer Laura Benanti …   Wikipedia

• Starved Rock — Infobox nrhp | name =Starved Rock nrhp type = nhl caption = nearest city= Ottawa, Illinois lat degrees = 41 lat minutes = 19 lat seconds = 14 lat direction = N long degrees = 88 long minutes = 59 long seconds = 26 long direction = W locmapin =… …   Wikipedia

• -starved — starve UK US /stɑːv/ verb [T, often passive] ► if a company, etc. is starved of something necessary or good, it does not receive enough of it: starve sth of sth »His predecessor in the job had starved the business of capital investment. be… …   Financial and business terms

• starved — adj. starved for, of (BE) (starved for company) * * * of (starved for company; BE) starved for …   Combinatory dictionary

• Starved — Starve Starve (st[aum]rv), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Starved} (st[aum]rvd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Starving}.] [OE. sterven to die, AS. steorfan; akin to D. sterven, G. sterben, OHG. sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil.] 1. To die; to perish. [Obs., except in… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• starved — UK [stɑː(r)vd] / US [stɑrvd] adjective 1) informal very hungry 2) prevented from having enough of what you need starved of/for: I m feeling starved of intelligent conversation …   English dictionary