vulture

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Singular
vulture

Plural
vultures

A vulture.
  1. (countable) A vulture is a large bird that eats dead animals.
    Those vultures are circling around the dying lamb.
  2. (countable) A vulture is a person who takes advantage of other people's problems.
    When the company finally failed, the vultures snapped up all the cheap equipment.