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What (who) is pilfer - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Pilfer; Pilfering; Pilferage (disambiguation)
Pilfer
·vt To take by petty theft; to Filch; to steal little by little.
II. Pilfer ·vi To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft.
pilfer
I. v. a.
Steal (by petty theft), filch, purloin.
II. v. n.
Steal, thieve, practise petty theft.
pilfer
¦ verb steal (things of little value).
Derivatives
pilferage noun
pilferer noun
Origin
ME: from OFr. pelfrer 'to pillage'; cf. pelf.
Wikipedia
Pilferage
Pilferage or pilfering is the act of stealing items of low value, especially in small quantities, also called petty theft.
Pilferage may also refer to:
- Package pilferage, the theft of part of the contents of a package
- Pilferage (animal behavior), when one animal takes food from another animal's larder
Examples of use of pilfer
1. It collapsed for good in October 2002 over allegations that the IRA was using Sinn Fein‘s position inside government to pilfer files and other intelligence on potential targets.
2. Arab News TAIF: Thieves generally gravitate toward goods they want to pilfer, but in a mosque in Taif they gravitated toward good.
3. Detractors complain, however, that pure water producers – who are meant to drill boreholes and purify the water privately – pilfer the water from state water pipes.
4. September 2', 2002: Several people die and many more are injured at Akute–Odo in southern Ogun state as a pipeline they had vandalised to pilfer oil blows up.
5. When Sherman‘s troops laid over in Raleigh, N.C., in 1865 – as Lee handed over his sword at Appomattox and Lincoln was assassinated – they didn‘t just pilfer chickens and possum toddy beer.