Definition of purloin
transitive verb
: to appropriate wrongfully and often by a breach of trust
purloiner
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Examples of purloin in a Sentence
the studio stepped up security, fearing that someone might attempt to purloin a copy of the script for the show's season finale
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The petition to the high court comes from a San Antonio man whom the RIAA accused of using the Kazaa file-sharing program to purloin its members’ music in 2006.
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Synonym Discussion of purloin
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playDefinition of purloin for English Language Learners
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: to take (something that belongs to someone else)
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