poacher
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈpoʊtʃər/
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cazador furtivo
- Last week, the rangers arrested a notorious poacher who had been illegally hunting elephants in the national park.
- snare set by poachers
- killed by poachers
- threatened by poachers
And we're struggling to keep poachers away from them to kill more of them.
- And we're struggling to keep poachers away from them to kill more of them.
- So, and, and, and there's a difference between a poacher and a hunter.
- Maybe all maybe their natural predators are being hunted by the illegal poachers.
- And you guys have been established in Africa and fighting the problem with poachers for how many years now?
- And the last job I was out in the Congo, we'd we'd capture these poachers.
- I think of one woman in particular in Cameroon who was fighting against the the poachers.
- And so I went in the room and there's two poachers sitting zip tied, you know, they're flexi cuffed against the wall.
- So he's he's, he's a poacher.
- But you also have been talking earlier about how you know it's hard because so many poachers can then get turned or go the wrong way.
- And, and these people, these poor fucking people in Africa, that they, they, they can either be poachers and fucking feed their family, right?
- Mike Snow, because Mike Snow knows him, has flown the same routes, has walked the same paths and he's a he's a poacher.
Examples
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During the 1800s up until 1890, hunters and poachers all but eliminated the bison from North America.
Academic text (2009) -
The system distinguishes between drug traffickers speeding northward and abalone poachers coming out of Laguna San Ignacio.
Academic text (1999) -
And you guys have been established in Africa and fighting the problem with poachers for how many years now?
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Rare, but we do have some poachers around here.
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Both are known poachers and have been seen in the area!
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Yeah, he was helping him track down some poachers way out the west end.
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And we're struggling to keep poachers away from them to kill more of them.
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"And we'll get more endangered if those poachers have their way," Brandon said.
Fiction book (1998) -
And the Tibetan police, though they were authorized to go after the poachers, were not paid.
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The legal fishermen often complain that on most days, poachers outnumber them in the water.
Academic text (2009)
Compounds
A person who used to break rules but now stops others from breaking them, for example protecting animals
- Specialized
A small, thin fish with bony plates on its body that lives in deep northern Pacific waters
How Lawful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Poacher comes from the verb poach, which is linked to pouch ('pocket' or 'bag'); people who poached would secretly put game in a bag. So a poacher is someone who hunts or takes animals illegally.