poach

verb [I/T] (TAKE ILLEGALLY)

/poʊtʃ/

Definition

› to catch or kill an animal without permission on someone else’s property, or to kill animals illegally to get valuable parts of them: [T] Anybody you see with a piece of ivory has poached it. [I] Foreign fishing boats were caught poaching offshore. poacher

/ˈpoʊ·tʃər/ noun [C]

(Definition of poach verb (TAKE ILLEGALLY) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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