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 Translation for 'pilfering' from English to Hungarian
VERB   to pilfer | pilfered | pilfered
pilfering | pilfers
zsákmányoló {adj} {pres-p}pilfering
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Translation for 'pilfering' from English to Hungarian

pilfering
zsákmányoló {adj} {pres-p}
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Usage Examples English
  • Her wreck triggered a large scale episode of shipwreck pilfering and smuggling.
  • Cyril Aldred has pointed out that the coffer of the sarcophagus of Ramesses VI must have been removed relatively soon after the burial, because the sacramental oils had not yet had the time to solidify, but whether this was done during the pilfering by the thieves tried in Pap.
  • Pilferage or pilfering is the act of stealing items of low value, especially in small quantities, also called "petty theft".
  • Wellington also forbade pilfering among his troops as he believed that it led to the lack of discipline and distraction from military duty.
  • James was the owner of a saloon in Dayton, Ohio, US, and wanted to stop employees from pilfering his profits.

  • After being dismissed from a job as a junior clerk with a Sydney shipping company for pilfering petty cash, he went to Papua New Guinea at the age of eighteen, seeking his fortune in tobacco planting and gold mining in the Morobe Goldfield.
  • Unger opines that continuing to call this map "Peutinger" means honouring the pilfering.
  • In works of art that left the imperial collection, either as gifts or through pilfering by court eunuchs (a long-standing problem), where practicable, one claw was removed from each set, as in several pieces of carved lacquerware, for example the well known Chinese lacquerware table in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
  • Similarly, Eurasian jays ("Garrulus glandarius") when being watched by another jay, prefer to cache food behind an opaque barrier rather than a transparent barrier, suggesting they may opt to cache in out-of-view locations to reduce the likelihood of other jays pilfering their caches.
  • Juvenile vandalism and pilfering included smashing windows, and prowlers on the store roof.

  • Mining was in decline and pilfering had practically ceased.
  • Eleven thieves masquerading as PNR Engineering Department personnel were caught pilfering railway parts by the PNR Civil Security Office and Incident Response team in close proximity to the station, having carted away actual rails already cut down to pieces.
  • The King watches how his shipbuilders start to take apart a warship for their own benefit until stopped by one of their fellows who admits to some minor pilfering.
  • Caretaker personnel were assigned to protect the property against pilfering and vandalism.
  • According to Dudley Carleton there some disorder and pilfering at the wedding masque, jewels and gold chains were lost, and some skirts.

  • In addition to shoplifting, book stores suffer from pilfering by shipping personnel and from burglary (theft that happens while the store is closed).
  • The testimony of ex-priests who denounced their former fellow clergymen for lechery, luxury, pilfering and materialistic greed, were used when available.
  • The term "tamper-proof" is sometimes used but is considered a misnomer given that pilfering is still technically possible.
  • Some Zuni have understood Cushing's unfortunate and untimely death as spiritual retribution for his handling of secret information and his pilfering of sacred objects.
  • Joe Leydon of "Variety" wrote that the film "plays an awful lot like a direct-to-vid knockoff of last year's "Eagle Eye" and "ups the ante with additional pilfering from "WarGames".

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