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pilferage

Definition of pilferage

Etymology

Noun

pilferage (uncountable)

  1. A recurrent theft of small items of little value.

Quotations

  • 1981, John Updike, Rabbit is Rich
    Still, there is pilferage, mysterious discrepancies eating into the percentages.

References:

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