Here again there is a real danger—and this is part of the security aspect—that some of these postal votes may be purloined or stolen, or the carrier may be menaced.
They have felt that their stocks had been purloined by those fishermen not subject to the same restrictions.
I should have been only too happy to have seen my ideas purloined.
I regret to say that the document was somehow purloined, although we tried to keep it to ourselves.
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.
There was the famous purloined document, which was published in goodness knows how many journals.
The academics, if it is academics who wrote the report, have rather purloined the word "detriment" as being a pure economic term.
