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:
1 to catch and kill animals without permission on someone else's land:
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:
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:
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烹飪, 燉,水煮(魚、荷包蛋等), 拿走…
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(卵など)をゆでる, (湯などの中に割って)落とし入れる…
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