to poach
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- verb
- /poʊtʃ/
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captar (empleados)
- Many companies decide to poach talented employees from their competitors to gain an advantage.
But you know, we should poach the admin.
- But you know, we should poach the admin.
- Guys, if I think if if you think I should poach Jack from Graham, poach.
- So I'm down to poach, You know, you're still a free agent.
- And my boss saw those skills and sort of decided to poach them for himself.
- The easiest way is to already be making money as a screenwriter because agents love to poach their competitions clients.
- You know, whatever they ended up, it was actually one of the buyers that I didn't sell to, came back and then poached the CEO post transaction.
- And if that product takes off within a few weeks, they're going to be fake websites, they're going to be people advertising on Google to try to poach that traffic.
Examples
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So apparently Elon Musk has poached staff of The Onion.
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The number of customers is relatively finite, and it's very hard to poach big customers away from the others.
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And my boss saw those skills and sort of decided to poach them for himself.
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I was gonna poach you from him.
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I'm gonna poach you from this guy.
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I apologize for trying to poach from you!
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Naturally we immediately tried to poach Mr. Pete, but since he turned us down, here we are.
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It's no wonder NASA poached you from the Air Force.
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Most recently, Apple had poached a Samsung chip designer.
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The Gap has even started poaching Lulu's yoga teachers by offering a 30% discount to its instructors, versus Lulu's 15%.
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Synonyms
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To take someone else's ideas or work and use them as your own without permission
Use someone else's idea as your own without permission
Phrasal Verbs
To try to persuade a top employee from another company to work for you
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Etymology
Poach (to take someone else's ideas or employees unfairly) comes from the same idea as illegal hunting: it means to 'steal' people or ideas from another person or group. So, to poach at work or in research is to take someone else's people or work for your own advantage.