fleece
noun
the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.
have fleeced
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present perfectof fleece.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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"We're using a 55-year-old statute to compel immediate payment from unscrupulous businesses that have fleeced their employees of earned wages for years," state Controller John Chiang said at a news conference in Fresno on Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2014
With no more equipment than a telephone, sharp Canadian stock promoters have fleeced gullible Americans of millions by palming off worthless oil and uranium shares at inflated prices.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1985, a San Diego currency trader named David Dominelli was revealed to have fleeced more than 1,000 investors to the tune of $80 million.
From Time Magazine Archive
This gentleman, however, who possessed at once a rapacious heart and a stupid head, might have fleeced half the country had the one been upon a par with the other.
From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
They have fleeced us, robbed us, and are ulcerous sores to the body politic; yet our heart turns to water over their merited punishment.
From Twelve Causes of Dishonesty by Henry Ward Beecher
