Shuan's Writing Book

This is currently where I put my learning and practicing stuff for TOEFL. I'll also post some quotes here.

Monday, August 01, 2005

POACH

to catch and kill animals without permission on someone else's land:
The farmer claimed that he shot the men because they were poaching on his land.

to take and use for yourself unfairly or dishonestly something, usually an idea, that belongs to someone else:
Jeff always poaches my ideas, and then pretends that they're his own.

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