pilfering
11Pilferingly — Pilfering Pil fer*ing, a. Thieving in a small way. Shak. n. Petty theft. {Pil fer*ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] …
12pilfer — pil‧fer [ˈpɪlfə ǁ ər] verb [transitive] to steal small amounts of things, or things that are not worth much, especially from an office, factory etc: • An employee has been charged with pilfering a set of automobile wheels. pilfering noun… …
13pilferage — pilfer pil‧fer [ˈpɪlfə ǁ ər] verb [transitive] to steal small amounts of things, or things that are not worth much, especially from an office, factory etc: • An employee has been charged with pilfering a set of automobile wheels. pilfering noun… …
14pilfer — [[t]pɪ̱lfə(r)[/t]] pilfers, pilfering, pilfered VERB If someone pilfers, they steal things, usually small cheap things. Staff were pilfering behind the bar... [V n] When food stores close, they go to work, pilfering food for resale on the black… …
15Package pilferage — Pilferage is the theft of part of the contents of a package. It may also include theft of the contents but leaving the package, perhaps resealed with bogus contents. Small packages can be pilfered from a larger package such as a shipping… …
16Somalia Affair — The Somalia Affair was a Canadian military scandal in the mid 1990s. It began with the brutal 1993 beating death of a Somali teenager, Shidane Arone, at the hands of two Canadian soldiers participating in the United Nations humanitarian efforts… …
17Hoarding (animal behaviour) — Hoarding is type of animal behaviour where an an animal will store its food within a cache, in times of surplus, for times when food is less plentiful. It will also scatter hoard when it can t defend a large concentration of stored food. In other …
18National Library of the Philippines — Pambansang Aklatan ng Pilipinas Biblioteca Nacional de Filipinas …
19thievery — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. burglary, robbery, pilfering; see crime 2 , theft . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. theft, robbery, larceny, grand larceny, petty larceny, burglary, stealing, pilfering, shoplifting, kleptomania, embezzlement, swindle. III …
20pilfer — pil|fer [ˈpılfə US ər] v [I and T] [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: pelfrer, from pelfre stolen things ] to steal things that are not worth much, especially from the place where you work pilfer from ▪ She was sacked after being caught… …
