Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
PILFER
pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
(verb) make off with belongings of others
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
pilfer (third-person singular simple present pilfers, present participle pilfering, simple past and past participle pilfered)
(ambitransitive) To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft.
Anagrams
• reflip
Source: Wiktionary
Pil"fer, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pilfered; p. pr. & vb. n. Pilfering.] Etym: [OF. pelfrer. See Pelf.]
Definition: To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft.
Pil"fer, v. t.
Definition: To take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by little. And not a year but pilfers as he goes Some youthful grace that age would gladly keep. Cowper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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