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What does covet mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.
  2. (transitive) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
  3. (intransitive) To yearn, have or indulge inordinate desire, notably for another's possession.
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I think it would make for a gentle irony if the two of them were to covet the two top jobs at the one time.
One brief, unmitigated disaster later, Rangers were returning to the man who self-evidently could not win the trophy they most covet.
He dismissed talk of a feud with Brown, who is reported to covet the premiership.
They covet its 8,000 objects as old friends and talk about them with familiar candour.
Various characters, good and bad, from high life and low, covet and become corrupted by the golden coin.
Logically, all OEMs covet a piece of the prestige markets as that is where the money flows in great quantities.

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