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pil·fer

(pĭl′fər)

v. pil·fered, pil·fer·ing, pil·fers

v.tr.

To steal (a small amount or item). See Synonyms at steal.

v.intr.

To steal or filch.

[From Middle English pilfre, booty, spoils, from Old French pelfre; probably akin to felpe, frepe, old clothes; see frippery.]

pil′fer·age (-ĭj) n.

pil′fer·er n.

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pilfer

(ˈpɪlfə)

to steal (minor items), esp in small quantities

[C14 pylfre (n) from Old French pelfre booty; see pelf]

ˈpilferer n

ˈpilfering n

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pil•fer

(ˈpɪl fər)

v.i., v.t.

to steal, esp. in small quantities.

[1540–50; v. use of late Middle English pilfre booty < Middle French pelfre. See pelf]

pil′fer•age (-ɪdʒ) n.

pil′fer•er, n.

pilfer

- Originally, pilfering was a serious matter, synonymous with plundering, but it came to mean "stealing small things"; its source was Anglo-Norman pelfrer, "plunder, rob."

pilfer

Past participle: pilfered
Gerund: pilfering

Imperative
pilfer
pilfer

Present
I pilfer
you pilfer
he/she/it pilfers
we pilfer
you pilfer
they pilfer

Preterite
I pilfered
you pilfered
he/she/it pilfered
we pilfered
you pilfered
they pilfered

Present Continuous
I am pilfering
you are pilfering
he/she/it is pilfering
we are pilfering
you are pilfering
they are pilfering

Present Perfect
I have pilfered
you have pilfered
he/she/it has pilfered
we have pilfered
you have pilfered
they have pilfered

Past Continuous
I was pilfering
you were pilfering
he/she/it was pilfering
we were pilfering
you were pilfering
they were pilfering

Past Perfect
I had pilfered
you had pilfered
he/she/it had pilfered
we had pilfered
you had pilfered
they had pilfered

Future
I will pilfer
you will pilfer
he/she/it will pilfer
we will pilfer
you will pilfer
they will pilfer

Future Perfect
I will have pilfered
you will have pilfered
he/she/it will have pilfered
we will have pilfered
you will have pilfered
they will have pilfered

Future Continuous
I will be pilfering
you will be pilfering
he/she/it will be pilfering
we will be pilfering
you will be pilfering
they will be pilfering

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been pilfering
you have been pilfering
he/she/it has been pilfering
we have been pilfering
you have been pilfering
they have been pilfering

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been pilfering
you will have been pilfering
he/she/it will have been pilfering
we will have been pilfering
you will have been pilfering
they will have been pilfering

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been pilfering
you had been pilfering
he/she/it had been pilfering
we had been pilfering
you had been pilfering
they had been pilfering

Conditional
I would pilfer
you would pilfer
he/she/it would pilfer
we would pilfer
you would pilfer
they would pilfer

Past Conditional
I would have pilfered
you would have pilfered
he/she/it would have pilfered
we would have pilfered
you would have pilfered
they would have pilfered

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Verb

pilfer - make off with belongings of others

cabbage, filch, purloin, snarf, nobble, abstract, swipe, pinch, sneak, hook, lift

steal - take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"

pilfer

verb steal, take, rob, lift (informal), nick (slang, chiefly Brit.), appropriate, trouser (slang), rifle, pinch (informal), swipe (slang), knock off (slang), embezzle, blag (slang), walk off with, snitch (slang), purloin, filch, snaffle (Brit. informal), thieve Staff were pilfering cash from the bar.

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pilfer

verb

To take (another's property) without permission:

filch, purloin, snatch, steal, thieve.

Informal: lift, swipe.

Slang: cop, heist, hook, nip, pinch, rip off, snitch.

Idiom: make off with.

Translations

يَسْرِق أشْياء زهيدَه

krást

huggesmåstjæle

hnupla

vagišiusvogimasvoginėjimasvoginėtivogti

čieptzagt

naske

araklamakaşırmak

偷窃

pilfer

[ˈpɪlfəʳ]

A. VT → ratear, hurtar, robar; (esp by servant) → robar, sisar (Sp)

B. VI → ratear, robar cosas

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

pilfer

[ˈpɪlfə^r]

vt → chaparder

vi → chaparder

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

pilfer

vt → stehlen, klauen (inf); a lot of pilfering goes on in the office → im Büro wird viel geklaut (inf)

vi → stehlen, klauen (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

pilfer

[ˈpɪlfəʳ]

1. vt → rubacchiare

2. vi → fare dei furtarelli

pilfer

(ˈpilfə) verb

to steal (small things). He pilfered enough pieces of wood from the factory to make a chair.

ˈpilferage noun

ˈpilferer noun

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Tarzan raised aloft the thing he had pilfered from the hut, and, with aim made true by years of fruit and coconut throwing, launched it toward the group of savages.

Later, when they discovered the overturned cauldron, and that once more their arrows had been pilfered, it commenced to dawn upon them that they had offended some great god by placing their village in this part of the jungle without propitiating him.

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A gold watch, pilfered from the poor baron, is still in existence, and still marks each moment of time without complaining of weariness, although its hands have been in motion ever since the hour of battle.

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It was nothing less than robbery, he concluded - a cold-blooded steal; while he starved, he was pilfered of his merchandise, of his goods, the sale of which was the sole way of getting bread to eat.

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The applicant's lawyer contended before the court that 2,17,400 bags of sugar pledged by Kashmir Sugar Mill Limited to the bank were pilfered.

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The applicant's lawyer said before the court that 2,17,400 bags of sugar pledged by Kashmir Sugar Mill Limited to the bank were pilfered.

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The illusionist and author has said he enjoyed the skills of stealing as a teenager, and at one time everything in his bedroom was pilfered.

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WASA sources said that water meters will be installed on 350 tube wells operating in the Rawalpindi city to gauge the water requirement of the residents and its consumption and the power that may be pilfered. The sources said that meters will also be installed at Khan Pur and Rawal dams to ascertain the total consumption of electricity.

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