poaching
noun
the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
poachings
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pluralof poaching.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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That need has fueled bidding wars for proven portfolio managers and poachings such as Bhanji’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
Washington had no confirmed wolf poachings from 2017-2021.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
The agency knows that there are a number of undetected wolf poachings, but the numbers must be small because the total number of wolves keep increasing, Smith said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
He joined CNN in 2013, one of the earliest poachings by the network’s then-newly appointed president, Jeffrey A. Zucker.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
He has a hundred heads to plan his poachings, a hundred eyes to spy the land, a hundred hands to set his snares and springes.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Ambrose Bierce
