cannibalize
ka nuh buh lahyz
- v eat human flesh
- v use parts of something to repair something else
- But, says John Wormald, managing partner of consultants Autopolis, because Porsches and the R8 occupy different niches, "they don't cannibalize each other.
- By crowding us in like Dairy Queens, you cannibalize the price, cannibalize the service, cannibalize the reputation of the dealer.
- He's convinced the technology won't cannibalize BT's conventional voice business because VoIP users will be "incremental" callers whose traffic BT otherwise would not have.