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(pilfers, pilfering, pilfered) If someone pilfers, they steal things, usually small cheap things. Staff were pilfering behind the bar... When food stores close, they go to work, pilfering food for resale on the black market. VERB: V, V n • pilfering Precautions had to be taken to prevent pilfering. N-UNCOUNT
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verb (~ed; ~ing) Etymology: Middle French pelfrer, from pelfre booty Date: circa 1548 intransitive verb steal; especially to steal stealthily in small amounts and often again and again transitive verb steal; especially to steal in small quantities Synonyms: see steal • ~able adjective • ~age noun • ~er noun • ~proof adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. (also absol.) steal (objects) esp. in small quantities. Derivatives pilferage n. pilferer n. Etymology: ME f. AF & OF pelfrer pillage, of unkn. orig.: assoc. with archaic pill plunder: PELF ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ v to steal small amounts of things, or things that are not worth much, especially from the place where you work (They'd been caught pilfering building materials from the construction site.) - ~er n - ~ing n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1400 (n.), from M.Fr. pelfre "booty, spoils," from O.Fr., of unknown origin, possibly related to pelf. The verb is first recorded 1548. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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