Modifies a noun

• competition: You too can take advantage of this cutthroat competition to get the desired loan package.

• world: Always a good thing in the cutthroat world of entertainment.

• industry: His company's ultimate failure says more about a cutthroat industry than about the quality of Kaplan's product.

• business: And both have survived, if not thrived, the last 20 years in the cutthroat business of fashion.

• market: There's a cutthroat market out there for directory inquiries, and other companies numbers don't work from BT call boxes.

• trout: The cutthroat trout were big, wild, and free rising - just like it's supposed to be.

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: By now a legend in television history, Weaver became increasingly critical of the increasingly cutthroat and commercial nature of US broadcasting.