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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 av·a·ri·cious /ˌævəˈrɪʃəs/
 (a.)貪婪的,貪得無厭的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Av·a·ri·cious a.  Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
 Syn: -- Greedy; stingy; rapacious; griping; sordid; close.
 Usage: -- Avaricious, Covetous, Parsimonious, Penurious, Miserly, Niggardly. The avaricious eagerly desire wealth with a view to hoard it.  The covetous grasp after it at the expense of others, though not of necessity with a design to save, since a man may be covetous and yet a spendthrift. The penurious, parsimonious, and miserly save money by disgraceful self-denial, and the niggardly by meanness in their dealing with others. We speak of persons as covetous in getting, avaricious in retaining, parsimonious in expending, penurious or miserly in modes of living, niggardly in dispensing.
 -- Av*a*ri*cious*ly, adv. -- Av*a*ri*cious*ness, n.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 avaricious
      adj : immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are
            avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting
            covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping
            old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money
            and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile
            employers stingy with raises for their employees" [syn:
             covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile]