Example: "They are avaricious and will do anything for money"
Example: "Avid for adventure"
Example: "Don't be greedy with the cookies"
Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
Prone to overeat.
Tending to match as much text as possible.
Example: "This regular expression performs a greedy match."
(of an algorithm) that tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.