Usually means: Stealing or taking without permission.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. purloining: Merriam-Webster
  2. purloining: Collins English Dictionary
  3. purloining: Vocabulary.com
  4. purloining: Wordnik
  5. purloining: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. purloining: Wiktionary
  7. Purloining, purloining: Dictionary.com
  8. Purloining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Purloining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. purloining: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. purloining: FreeDictionary.org
  12. purloining: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. purloining: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. purloining: Legal dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PURLOINING: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

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▸ noun:  theft

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filch, pilfer, nobble, sneak, pinch, snarf, swipe, lift, abstract, hook, more...

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filch, pilfer, nobble, sneak, pinch, snarf, swipe, lift, abstract, hook, more...



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