Aggressive Definition–adjective | 1. | characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country. | | 2. | making
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an all-out effort to win or succeed; competitive: an aggressive basketball player. | | 3. | vigorously energetic, esp. in the use of initiative and forcefulness: an aggressive salesperson. | | 4. | boldly assertive and forward; pushy: an aggressive driver. | | 5. | emphasizing maximum growth and capital gains over quality, security, and income: an aggressive mutual fund. | | 6. | Medicine/Medical. | a. | (of a disease or tumor) spreading rapidly or highly invasive; difficult or impossible to treat successfully. | | b. | pertaining to a risky surgery or treatment, or to a medication that has grave side effects: aggressive chemotherapy. | | |
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Skate Definition–noun | 3. | the blade of an ice skate. | | 4. | a skid on a lifeboat to facilitate launching from a listing ship. | –verb (used without object) | 5. | to glide or propel oneself over ice, the ground, etc., on skates. | | 6. | to glide or slide smoothly along. | | 7. | Slang. to shirk one's duty; loaf. | | 8. | (of the tone arm on a record player) to swing toward the spindle while a record is playing. | –verb (used with object) | 9. | to slide (a flat) across the floor of a stage. | —Idioms | 10. | get or put one's skates on, British Informal. to make haste. | | 11. | skate on thin ice, to be or place oneself in a risky or delicate situation: Taking a public stand on the question would be skating on thin ice. | |
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