Usually means: Desire someone else's possessions greatly.
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  1. covet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. covet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. covet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. covet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. covet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Covet, covet: Wordnik
  7. covet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. covet: Wiktionary
  9. covet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. covet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. covet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Covet, covet: Dictionary.com
  13. covet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Covet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Covet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. covet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. covet: Rhymezone
  18. Covet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. covet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. covet: Free Dictionary
  21. covet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. covet: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. covet: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. covet: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. covet: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. covet: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See covetable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.
verb:  (transitive) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
verb:  (intransitive) To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession.

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