": to attract (someone, such as an employee or customer) away from a competitor":[],
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"a field poached too frequently by the amateur",
"\u2014 The Times Literary Supplement (London)"
]
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"That the Padres were able to poach Oakland\u2019s career leader in managerial victories was a thunderbolt in the moment last October, and the first signal that the A\u2019s were about to embark on another rebuilding project. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"When a rising wealth management star departed the bank for a senior job at cross-town rival UBS, Credit Suisse authorized surveillance to determine whether Iqbal Khan planned to poach customers and employees with him. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 21 Feb. 2022",
"They are wearily accustomed to getting solicited by cold outreaches from recruiters and bombarded with emails and texts from competing firms trying to poach them. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"You\u2019ll be compelled to take it home, to toss it with hot, buttered pasta, or to bring it up to a simmer and use it to poach an egg. \u2014 New York Times , 2 May 2022",
"His presence in Seattle is also an excellent way for Richard to figure out that Hamilton is trying to poach Meredith. \u2014 Lincee Ray, EW.com , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Animal traders poach their horns for commercial and medical purposes, often for use in traditional Chinese medicine. \u2014 NBC News , 31 Mar. 2022",
"To poach boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut the chicken in half or in thirds crosswise, depending on how large the pieces are. \u2014 Katie Workman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Apr. 2022",
"In addition, Bowlsby accused ESPN in July of 2021 of encouraging other conferences - reportedly the American - to poach teams in the Big 12, so Texas and Oklahoma can move to the SEC without paying a massive buyout. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 5 Apr. 2022"
],
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"1611, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
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"Middle English pocchen , from Middle French pocher , from Old French poch\u00e9 poached, literally, bagged, from poche bag, pocket \u2014 more at pouch":"Verb",
"Middle French pocher , of Germanic origin; akin to Middle English poken to poke":"Verb"
},
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"\u02c8p\u014dch"
],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072518",
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"noun"
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": a genus of grasses that are widely distributed in temperate and arctic regions and have open panicles with 2- to 6-flowered spikelets on which the upper scales exceed the empty ones \u2014 see kentucky bluegrass , wire grass":[],
": any grass of the genus Poa":[]
},
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"You can't keep other candidates from poaching on your turf ."
]
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"noun"
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": one that trespasses or steals":[],
": one who kills or takes wild animals (such as game or fish) illegally":[],
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": a baking dish in which food (such as fish) can be poached":[]
},
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"poach entry 2":"Noun",
"poach entry 1":"Noun"
},
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"1574, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
"1861, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
},
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},
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": to encroach upon especially for the purpose of taking something":[],
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"a field poached too frequently by the amateur",
"\u2014 The Times Literary Supplement (London)"
],
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},
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"\u02c8p\u014dch"
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
"Geographically, trying to poach from the 11-team Mountain West, which spreads from the Northern California coast (San Jose State) out to Fort Collins, Colo. \u2014 Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 July 2022",
"That the Padres were able to poach Oakland\u2019s career leader in managerial victories was a thunderbolt in the moment last October, and the first signal that the A\u2019s were about to embark on another rebuilding project. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"When a rising wealth management star departed the bank for a senior job at cross-town rival UBS, Credit Suisse authorized surveillance to determine whether Iqbal Khan planned to poach customers and employees with him. \u2014 Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune , 21 Feb. 2022",
"They are wearily accustomed to getting solicited by cold outreaches from recruiters and bombarded with emails and texts from competing firms trying to poach them. \u2014 Jack Kelly, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"You\u2019ll be compelled to take it home, to toss it with hot, buttered pasta, or to bring it up to a simmer and use it to poach an egg. \u2014 New York Times , 2 May 2022",
"His presence in Seattle is also an excellent way for Richard to figure out that Hamilton is trying to poach Meredith. \u2014 Lincee Ray, EW.com , 8 Apr. 2022",
"Animal traders poach their horns for commercial and medical purposes, often for use in traditional Chinese medicine. \u2014 NBC News , 31 Mar. 2022",
"To poach boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut the chicken in half or in thirds crosswise, depending on how large the pieces are. \u2014 Katie Workman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 13 Apr. 2022"
],
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"Middle English pocchen , from Middle French pocher , from Old French poch\u00e9 poached, literally, bagged, from poche bag, pocket \u2014 more at pouch":"Verb",
"Middle French pocher , of Germanic origin; akin to Middle English poken to poke":"Verb"
},
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"15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Verb",
"1611, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-122104"
},
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"noun"
],
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": logwood sense 1a(1)":[]
},
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"perhaps alteration of campeachy wood":""
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"Middle English poched egg":""
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": easily cut up or made muddy by the feet of cattle : sodden , swampy":[
