1 [C] a piece cut from a living plant and fixed in a cut made in another plant, so that it grows there; the process or result of doing this:
A healthy shoot should form a strong graft.
2 [C] a piece of skin, bone, etc. removed from a living body and placed in another part of the body which has been damaged; the process or result of doing this:
a skin graft
3 [U] (BrE, informal) hard work:
Their success was the result of years of hard graft.
4 (especially AmE) the use of illegal or unfair methods, especially BRIBERY, to gain advantage in business, politics, etc.; money obtained in this way:
He promised an end to graft and corruption in public life.
Part of speech: verb
1 [VN] ~ sth (onto / to / into sth)
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is graft a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, graft is tagged as noun.
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