Usually means: Effective yet potentially harmful simultaneously.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word double-edged:

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  1. double-edged: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. double-edged: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. double-edged: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. double-edged, double-edged: Collins English Dictionary
  5. double-edged: Vocabulary.com
  6. Double-Edged, double-edged: Wordnik
  7. double-edged: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. double-edged: Wiktionary
  9. double-edged: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. double-edged: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. double-edged: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. double-edged: Dictionary.com
  13. double-edged: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. double-edged: Rhymezone
  15. double-edged: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. double-edged: Free Dictionary
  17. double-edged: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. double-edged: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. double-edged: Legal dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (not comparable) Of a blade, such as a sword or knife, sharp on both edges.
adjective:  (comparable, figuratively) As dangerous for the user as the one it is used on.

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