English-Spanish translations for greed

avariciaEl factor decisivo no fue la avaricia, la avaricia individual. It is not greed, individual greed, which was the decisive factor. Todo se reduce a beneficios y avaricia. This is all about profit and greed. La avaricia ha sido y es un mal consejero en las estrategias financieras. Greed was and is a bad advisor on financial strategies.
avidezExiste una cálida amistad y una fría avidez adquisitiva. There is warm friendship and cold acquisitive greed. Lo que necesitan los trabajadores son medidas que los protejan de la avidez de la patronal y no gestos simbólicos que además justifican el funcionamiento capitalista de la economía. What the workers need are measures to protect them from employers' greed, not symbolic gestures, which actually justify the capitalist management of the economy. Dicho de otro modo, ustedes nos negaron la responsabilidad en nombre de la solidaridad y apartan las solidaridades en nombre de la avidez o de la mediocridad, o de la contabilidad. In other words, you have rejected responsibility in favour of solidarity, and you have dismissed solidarity in favour of greed, mediocrity and accounting.

codiciaLa crisis de Irlanda ha sido provocada por la codicia, pura codicia, entre las grandes élites empresariales y políticas. The crisis in my country was caused by greed - pure greed - among the political and big business elite. Hay un límite para el hambre, pero no para la codicia. There is a limit to hunger, but not to greed. Hay que distinguir entre la codicia y la necesidad. We need to distinguish between greed and need.
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A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions
To desire in a greedy manner, or to act on such a desire

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