greedy

adjective5

1. •
   wanting a much larger share of something than is fair, and caring little about other people
2. •
   Prone to overeat.
3. •
   Tending to match as much text as possible.

   • This regular expression performs a greedy match.
4. •
   That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.
5. •
   (no longer used) Greedily sought or pursued.