Definition of poach
: to cook in simmering liquid
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It is expected to poach skilled workers from incumbent manufacturers that have survived in the region — Modine Manufacturing Co., Twin Disc Inc., InSinkErator (inventor of the garbage disposal) and S.C. Johnson.
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The Obama Justice Department began to crack down on no-poaching agreement, and Trump’s Justice Department has begun criminal investigation of no-poaching agreements.
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But the blackbuck poaching case — which trundled through India’s slow-moving legal system throughout Khan’s career highs and lows — continued to be a reminder of Khan’s past.
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Rarity isn’t the only reason to resist poaching them.
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Parscale came away from his initial meeting in June 2016 hoping to poach one of Cambridge's data gurus, according to a source familiar with the encounter.
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The Oakland Raiders poached another Dallas Cowboys’ free agent on Saturday.
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Any federal crime involving wildlife, from leading an organized network of wildlife trafficking in contravention of U.S. smuggling laws to poaching an animal in violation of the Endangered Species Act, has a base level of six under the guidelines.
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Meanwhile, the industry-wide cooperation involved would foreshadow more recent schemes in which top tech firms agreed to fix wages and not to poach one another’s talent.
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Origin and Etymology of poach
Middle English pocchen, from Middle French pocher, from Old French poché poached, literally, bagged, from poche bag, pocket — more at pouch
Definition of poach
1
: to encroach upon especially for the purpose of taking something
2
: to trespass for the purpose of stealing game;
also
: to take game or fish illegally
1
: to trespass on
- a field poached too frequently by the amateur
- —The Times Literary Supplement (London)
2 a
: to take (game or fish) by illegal methods
b
: to appropriate (something) as one's own
c
: to attract (someone, such as an employee or customer) away from a competitor
Origin and Etymology of poach
Middle French pocher, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle English poken to poke
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poached;
poaching
: to cook slowly in liquid
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