Какво означава fleece на английски?

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fleece Значение & определение

0 the thick covering of wool on a sheep, or this covering used to make a piece of clothing:
- My jacket is lined with fleece/is fleece-lined.
1 to take someone's money dishonestly, by charging too much money or by cheating them:
- That restaurant really fleeced us!
2 the wool of a sheep, or a soft, artificial material that looks like wool:
- [ C ] Polyester fleeces are especially popular to provide warmth in coats.
3 to charge too much money or cheat someone:
- He was fleecing investors by setting up bogus companies and then manipulating the price of their stocks.
4 to take someone's money dishonestly, by charging too much money or by cheating them:
- They are fleecing their customers with poor value products.
- fleece sb out of sth A man was convicted for using bogus web pages to fleece Americans out of $500,000.

The metabolism and thermal exchanges of sheep with fleeces.
We will not set people up to be fleeced.
The ventilator shafts were stuffed with sheep fleeces, and a few bleating sheep were put in the front of the lorry.
They are planning more and more taxes, so the road user will be fleeced, but less and less will be spent on public transport.
During that time, our sheep would have had 40 fleeces and some 40 lambs would have come from that sheep stock.
He is fleecing people practically down to the skin.
However, the taxpayer, who initially paid for the bridge, is being fleeced and is having to pay interest charges on the money provided.
The public are being fleeced every week, being almost bled white and exploited by these people who just want to make vast sums of money.