purloin Definition på svenska

  • 0 to steal something: --

    • I was using a pen that I'd purloined from the office.

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Examples of purloin

  • I regret to say that the document was somehow purloined, although we tried to keep it to ourselves.

  • We have some suspicion as to who were responsible for purloining the vehicles.

  • There is widespread concern about leaked or purloined documents.

  • Paradoxically, its income, which comes from oil, is increasing, but none of it reaches the inhabitants, being entirely purloined by the ruling classes.

  • The academics, if it is academics who wrote the report, have rather purloined the word "detriment" as being a pure economic term.

  • What about the alleged shoplifter who purloins a packet of sweets?

  • I had purloined it from someone's five small cigarette packet that we had in those days.

  • They have been purloined for the benefit of councillors and their families.

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