0 past simple and past participle of filch
1 to steal something of little value:
Who's filched my pencils?
A large proportion of those resources consists of money that has been filched from the local authority in cuts in rate support grant.
It is in that way that other liberties could be filched too.
It was not in substitution for money that we filched from the local authorities; it was genuine additional money.
We are always complaining that good agricultural land is being filched for other purposes.
We have liberty, but day after day we see liberty being filched away, and eaten into.
So there is no point in trying to frighten us with the idea of our sovereignty being secretly filched away from us.
It is therefore not surprising that thousands of pounds have been filched from homeworkers by crooked employers in recent years.
No money has been filched from the harbour authorities.
