Pilfer
21pilfer — [14] Originally pilfering was quite a serious matter, roughly what would now be termed plundering, but gradually over the centuries is has become trivialized to ‘stealing small things’. It was to begin with only a noun in English (the verb did… …
22pilfer — [[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… …
23pilfer — pil·fer || pɪlfÉ™(r) v. steal, filch (especially in small quantities) ; drag, tug, pull …
24pilfer — verb steal (things of little value). Derivatives pilferage noun pilferer noun Origin ME: from OFr. pelfrer to pillage ; cf. pelf …
25pilfer — I. v. a. Steal (by petty theft), filch, purloin. II. v. n. Steal, thieve, practise petty theft …
26pilfer — verb (I, T) 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. pilferer noun (C) pilfering noun (U) …
27pilfer — verb the gun was part of a cache pilfered from the air force Syn: steal, thieve, take, snatch, purloin, loot; informal swipe, rob, nab, rip off, lift, liberate , borrow , filch, snaffle; pinch, heist …
28pilfer — v 1. steal, thieve, rob, filch, purloin, finger, pick, Inf. snitch, cabbage, abstract, Chiefly Brit. prig, Brit. Si. snaffle, Euph. borrow, Archaic. nim; peculate, embezzle, Law. defalcate, misappropriate, convert; shoplift, palm, Sl. boost, walk …
29pilfer — pil·fer …
30pilfer — [ˈpɪlfə] verb [I/T] to steal things, especially from the place where you work …
