parasitism

parasitism
    n 1: the relation between two different kinds of organisms in
         which one receives benefits from the other by causing
         damage to it (usually not fatal damage)
    

Parasitism \Par"a*si`tism\ (p[a^]r"[.a]*s[imac]`t[i^]z'm; 277),
   n. [Cf. F. parasitisme.]
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   1. The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a
      parasite. "Court parasitism." --Milton.
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   2. (Bot. & Zool.) The state of being parasitic.
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64 Moby Thesaurus words for "parasitism":
      accompaniment, accordance, agreement, alliance, apple-polishing,
      ass-kissing, association, backscratching, bootlicking,
      brown-nosing, cahoots, co-working, coaction, coincidence,
      collaboration, collectivity, collusion, combination,
      combined effort, commensality, concert, concerted action,
      concomitance, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confluence,
      conjunction, consilience, conspiracy, cooperation, correspondence,
      cringing, ecology, ecosystem, fawnery, fawning, flunkyism,
      footlicking, groveling, handshaking, ingratiation, insinuation,
      junction, mealymouthedness, obeisance, obsequiousness, prostration,
      saprophytism, simultaneity, sponging, sycophancy, symbiosis,
      symbiotics, synchronism, synergy, timeserving, toadeating,
      toadying, toadyism, truckling, tufthunting, union, united action