poach Значение & определение

Значение на poach на български

• 0 to cook something such as a fish, or an egg with its shell removed, by putting it in gently boiling water or other liquid:

  • We had poached eggs for breakfast.

  • Do you like pears poached in red wine?

• 1 to catch and kill animals without permission on someone else's land:

  • The farmer claimed that he shot the men because they were poaching on his land.

  • Jeff always poaches my ideas, and then pretends that they're his own.

  • They were furious when one of their best managers was poached by another company.

• 2 to cook something in water or another liquid that is almost boiling:

  • poached eggs

• 3 to catch or kill an animal without permission on someone else’s property, or to kill animals illegally to get valuable parts of them:

  • [ T ] Anybody you see with a piece of ivory has poached it.

  • [ I ] Foreign fishing boats were caught poaching offshore.

• 4 to persuade employees or customers of another company to become your employees or customers instead:

  • poach sb from sth The company is considering a nationwide expansion after poaching a new chief operating officer from a rival restaurant group.

  • poach staff He is suing the rival company for damages of about £35m after they poached 27 staff from him earlier this year.

  • poach clients/customers Such data should help newcomers to poach customers from existing companies.

• 5 to take ideas that belong to another person, company, etc. and use them for yourself, especially in a secret and dishonest way:

  • Several unscrupulous IT companies are offering 'free' seminars on e-commerce to customers and then quietly poaching ideas.

• 6 to persuade very able and skilled employees from another organization to come and work for you:

  • Rival brokers have been sniffing around in a bid to poach talent.