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poaching
1. n. Illegal procurement of protected wildlife such as fish, game, logging, or plant collecting.
poach
1. v. To cook something in simmering liquid.
2. v. (intransitive) To be cooked in simmering liquid
3. v. To become soft or muddy.
4. v. To make soft or muddy.
Cattle coming to drink had punched and poached the river bank into a mess of mud.
5. v. (obsolete) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
6. v. (obsolete) To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
7. v. (obsolete) To begin and not complete.
8. v. (transitive, intransitive) To take game or fish illegally.
9. v. (transitive, intransitive) To take anything illegally or unfairly.
10. v. (transitive, intransitive) To cause an employee or customer to switch from a competing company to your own company.

Example Sentences

Every time one of their staff gets a job in a foundation hospital there will be bad local publicity about poaching by the privileged foundation hospital at the expense of local people.  He then gave up poaching to join the gamekeepers.  As time goes by, poaching will increase in intensity, because there will be more poachers and fewer people to poach.  Some obvious issues which need close scrutiny are whether the new hospitals create two tiers, or widen inequalities, or lead to aggressive poaching of staff.

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