According to Statista, the global coffee industry is worth US$363 billion in 2020. The market grows annually by 10.6%, and 78% of revenue came from out-of-home establishments like cafes and coffee beverage retailers.
PREHENSILE
avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile
(adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; “they are avaricious and will do anything for money”; “casting covetous eyes on his neighbor’s fields”; “a grasping old miser”; “grasping commercialism”; “greedy for money and power”; “grew richer and greedier”; “prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees”
prehensile
(adjective) adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; “a monkey’s prehensile tail”
prehensile
(adjective) having a keen intellect; “poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men”- A.T.Quiller-Couch
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
prehensile (not comparable)
(zoology) Able to take hold of and clasp objects; adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object.
Source: Wiktionary
Pre*hen"sile, a. Etym: [L. prehensus, p. p. of prehendere to lay hold of, seize; pre- (equiv. to prae before) + hendere (in comp.), akin to E. get: cf. F. préhensile. See Get, and cf. Prison, Prize, n.]
Definition: Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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OBSERVE
(verb) conform one’s action or practice to; “keep appointments”; “she never keeps her promises”; “We kept to the original conditions of the contract”
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