English-Italian translations for octopus

piovraAssistiamo invece all’ennesima incursione della piovra burocratica comunitaria che approfitta nuovamente di sventure private per impadronirsi della sovranità degli Stati membri. Instead, we see the EU octopus bureaucracy once again using private misfortune to plunder the sovereignty of Member States. I tentacoli più grandi della piovra controllano la giustizia e le forze dell'ordine, affette dal male della corruzione. The main tentacles of the mafia 'octopus' are the justice system and police, which are blighted by the cancer of corruption.
polpoIn Mauritania, negli ultimi quattro anni, le catture di polpo si sono dimezzate. In Mauritania, catches of octopus have halved in the past four years.

Any of several marine molluscs of the family Octopodidae, having no internal or external protective shell or bone and eight arms each covered with suckers
An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre
To put one's fingers, hands or arms in many things or places at roughly the same time
To spread out in long arms or legs in many directions
To plug a large number of devices into a single electric outlet
To grow in use vastly beyond what was originally intended
To hunt and catch octopuses
To behave like an octopus

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