0 present participle of fleece
1 to take someone's money dishonestly, by charging too much money or by cheating them:
That restaurant really fleeced us!
And they preach unashamedly that the poor man should submit to the skinning and fleecing which the tyrants have prepared for him.
He is fleecing people practically down to the skin.
There are hundreds of cases that could, and should have been dealt with involving crooked directors, deliberately fleecing the public.
This was the fleecing of all of the fat of the external services.
They are there only for the purpose of fleecing the people.
This may provide more scope for fleecing the players, and more scope for the growth of crime.
We are trying to find out who it is that is fleecing the public.
The danger to the public house is the itinerant professional gambler who makes his living fleecing fools.
