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poaching

[poh-ching]

noun

  1. the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.

  2. any encroachment on another's property, rights, ideas, or the like.



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Other Word Forms

  • antipoaching adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of poaching1

First recorded in 1605–15; poach 2 + -ing 1
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But it's become much more common in recent decades, in a last-ditch effort to save populations of black and white rhinos in South Africa and surrounding countries, where poaching threatens their survival.

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They are predicted to lose 30% of their habitat because of climate change in the next 50 to 100 years and they also face threats from poaching and the illegal wildlife trade.

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Entertainment companies have brought lawsuits in the past to stop executive talent poaching by rivals.

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He attributed the increased threat to "community conflicts or civil wars, or illegal fishing, or poaching - whatever it might be is just spreading further and further across the globe".

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But in the last five years or so, the rise of streaming has essentially done the opposite — poaching cable subscribers, edging out episodic programming with bingeable on-demand series and cutting writing jobs in the process.

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