Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of pilfering; also things pilfered.
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- noun A recurrent theft of small items of little value.
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- noun the act of stealing small amounts or small articles
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P54M 'pilferage' in piers probed Customs says samples taken in bulk photo: Creative Commons/Jayel Aheram
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P54M 'pilferage' in piers probed Customs says samples taken in bulk photo: Creative Commons/BrokenSphere
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P54M 'pilferage' in piers probed Customs says samples taken in bulk
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P54M 'pilferage' in piers probed Customs says samples taken in bulk
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P54M 'pilferage' in piers probed Customs says samples taken in bulk
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P54M 'pilferage' in piers probed Customs says samples taken in bulk
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P54M 'pilferage' in piers probed Customs says samples taken in bulk
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The current public distribution system is notoriously leaky, leading to massive pilferage.
India Can't Get the Food Right Wrong Harsh Joshi 2011
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Republicans said a proposal by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., to eliminate the reporting requirement to the Internal Revenue Service was legislative pilferage, noting that Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., filed a bill to that effect last year.
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The government has yet to announce details on how it will implement the program that is expected to reduce rampant corruption and pilferage in the current state public distribution system.
India's Food Security Law to Cost More Biman Mukherji 2011
yarb commented on the word pilferage
I especially love seeing this word in official regulations and notices.
September 26, 2007
trivet commented on the word pilferage
What official notices? I want to see them!
September 26, 2007
reesetee commented on the word pilferage
Maybe those tags you're not supposed to cut off of your pillows. ;->
September 26, 2007
yarb commented on the word pilferage
This is from a policy document I came across a while back:
"4. Tool Identification
Items which may be subject to pilferage must be engraved with the unique corporate ID number which identifies ownership."
I love it, it's a cheeky ray of light in the murk of bureaucracy.
September 27, 2007
reesetee commented on the word pilferage
Ah, to have official regulations like that! :-)
September 27, 2007
trivet commented on the word pilferage
But aren't "items that may be subject to pilferage" kinda hard to engrave? Office supplies, grapes in the grocery store, my supply of soda in the staff fridge that someone keeps drinking...
September 27, 2007
reesetee commented on the word pilferage
But those aren't tools...well, not really. Although some might argue about the soda. :-)
September 27, 2007
trivet commented on the word pilferage
Oh - I missed the tool business. I don't think a mystery number is going to deter a hardened tool-pilferer.
September 27, 2007
reesetee commented on the word pilferage
I'd still like to see someone engrave a grape.
September 27, 2007
yarb commented on the word pilferage
It wouldn't be so hard to engrave a grape. A needle and a steady hand, is all it would take. Do you think people would pay to have their grapes engraved? I could do a while-u-wait, or an online business.
Some grapes are surprisingly thick-skinned. Grapeskin, is that one word?
September 27, 2007
trivet commented on the word pilferage
Like those Your Name On A Grain Of Rice! kiosks in a mall?
...do they still do that? My memories of malls consist of stands with useless crap and Orange Juliuses. Talk about hellholes...
September 27, 2007
reesetee commented on the word pilferage
Yarb, I'd like to order a grape engraved with the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, please. A purple grape.
:-)
September 27, 2007
yarb commented on the word pilferage
Sure. It's a dollar a letter, buyer pays shiping.
September 27, 2007
reesetee commented on the word pilferage
Including refrigeration costs?
September 27, 2007
yarb commented on the word pilferage
Just coming back to this to pick up on trivet's "hardened tool-pilferer". Fnarr!
August 1, 2008