pilferage
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7.5
- noun
- /ˈpɪlfərɪdʒ/
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- Many small businesses suffer from pilferage, leading to increased costs and financial losses.
Examples
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The store's manager implemented strict security measures to reduce pilferage by employees.
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Those who don't must turn to the "informal" economy, which touches most of life and breeds pilferage, corruption, and theft.
Academic text (1997) -
You know how the boss feels about individual pilferage.
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Having amassed that kind of authority with so little oversight, pilferage would have been easy for him.
Blog text (22) -
You suspect pilferage, sir?
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They have overhead costs that include parking space maintenance, outdoor lighting, heating, bathrooms, pilferage, and more.
Blog text (4) -
These include decreasing spoilage and preventing pilferage or tampering.
Academic text (1993) -
And the main factors are (i) corruption, (ii) wastage, leakage, and pilferage of precious resources; (iii) want of quality leadership; (iv) lack of education; and (v) the failure to provide infrastructural facilities, especially transportation and communication for the villagers to bring their products to the markets.
Blog text (4) -
The first tamperproof screws may have been developed by Chicago-based Safety Socket LLC, which makes fasteners for Bryce, some 25 years ago for the Western Electric Co. to combat phone booth pilferage.
Academic text (2005) -
Regular audits are necessary to catch instances of pilferage before they become a significant issue.
Synonyms
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1.1
An act of taking someone else's property without permission to keep it
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7.2
Stealing something that belongs to someone else to keep it
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5.6
The act of taking things that belong to other people without permission
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1.0
Taking something that belongs to another person without permission
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Etymology
Pilferage comes from pilfer, which comes from an old French word for 'stolen goods' and is like the word 'pillage' but much smaller. So pilferage means the stealing of small items, often done again and again.