graft

The vice-president, who himself has been convicted of corruption in France and has had lavish assets seized in various countries, wants to be seen as the man cracking down on graft and wrong-doing at home.

Their inability to find the end game to back up promising performances and hard graft with results has become a worrying trend.

He needed several skin graft surgeries and was left with post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as needing ongoing physiotherapy.

Working people are "strivers who graft", according to the chancellor.

Ivana has already had a skin graft - from her lower limbs - and is due to be discharged in about 10 days’ time.