Graft
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Graft may refer to:
- Grafting, where the tissues of one plant are affixed to the tissues of another
- Medical grafting, a surgical procedure to transplant tissue without a blood supply
- Skin grafting, a type of organ transplant procedure involving skin
- Graft (Netherlands), a village in the municipality of Graft-De Rijp
- Photografting
- In politics of some countries, graft is a form of political corruption whereby someone profits personally from the public budget
- In some parts of the world, for example in the United Kingdom, graft means hard work (as a noun) or to work hard (as a verb). Thus in British dialect, a grafter is someone who works hard. This is the more commonly understood meaning in the UK, and is mutually exclusive with the American concept. The modern UK slang term for political corruption is sleaze
- The origins of this word are still unproven, but a likely source is the act of digging, considered a low or menial type of work. In American slang of the mid-1800s, graft was used to mean work. By the late 1800s, the meaning drifted to refer to illegal work. The root word is graaf, the imperative form of Dutch word for digging
- Graft (1915 serial), a 1915 film serial
- Graft (1931 film), a 1931 film featuring Boris Karloff
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