Pilfer :
pilfer
popore, Filch, pahuatia, kāhaki, tahae, parakete
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Verb(1) make off with belongings of others
(1) she produced the handful of coins she had managed to pilfer(2) The bad guys steal your mail or pilfer your trash, coming up with enough personal information to apply for bank accounts, credit cards and loans with your name and credit rating but with their address.(3) Frankly, with a vast online knowledge base at your fingertips, it would be a miracle if people didn't swipe a phrase here or pilfer a juicy paragraph there.(4) After all, these nightly visitors aren't there to snitch snapdragons or pilfer peas.(5) Ahmad manages to pilfer a box of medicine, but it's not enough.(6) Fights were sometimes orchestrated under false pretences, so that inmates could swipe and pilfer a target person's store items.(7) It was still early morning when Skipper and Dodger returned with the camels to find other Warlpiri pilfering the last of the supplies and other useful items.(8) Earlier, they were satisfied with getting access to the car and taking away the stereos, or pilfering anything kept inside.(9) He kept law and order by giving the pilferer a clip round the ear.(10) A trusted church warden has been jailed for a year after he was caught pilfering tens of thousands of pounds from a village charity fund.(11) This is especially true if we consider how various forms of pilferage , theft, and minor fraud relate to the way different kinds of work are organized and the occupational socialization that people experience.(12) On board two passengers have just proposed marriage while the rest are now busy pilfering the safety instruction cards.(13) The pilferers brushed off the warning and proceeded to remove the loot they came for: the security system!(14) Masses of all kinds of pilferers and robbers with spades and shovels in their hands were there digging and searching and raking and straining the sand.(15) After bullying and pilfering his way through childhood, he signed up as a soldier and took full advantage of the administrative mayhem of Revolutionary France.(16) An ingenious scheme has seen pilfering attendants fired, to be replaced by deaf-and-dumb individuals recruited through their national association for the equivalent of Ôö¼├║2 a match.
(1) pile on ::
opehia runga(2) a pile ::
he puranga(3) a pile of ::
he puranga o(4) sheet pile ::
puranga pepa(5) rock pile ::
puranga toka(6) pile-up ::
puranga-ake(7) to pile up ::
ki te opehia ake(8) pile of rubble ::
puranga o te paru(9) pile it on ::
opehia reira i runga i
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