Usually means: Steals or takes without permission.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. purloins: Merriam-Webster
  2. purloins: Collins English Dictionary
  3. purloins: Vocabulary.com
  4. purloins: Wordnik
  5. purloins: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. purloins: Wiktionary
  7. purloins: Dictionary.com
  8. purloins: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

(Note: See purloin as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (purloin)

verb:  (transitive, usually formal or humorous) To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.
verb:  (intransitive) To commit theft; to thieve.
▸ Also see purloin


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