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.
PURLOIN
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
purloin (third-person singular simple present purloins, present participle purloining, simple past and past participle purloined)
(transitive) To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.
(intransitive) To commit theft; to thieve.
Source: Wiktionary
Pur*loin", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purloined; p. pr. & vb. n. Purloining.] Etym: [OF. purloignier, porloignier, to retard, delay; pur, por, pour, for (L. pro) + loin far, far off (L. longe). See Prolong, and cf. Eloign.]
Definition: To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch. Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold. Milton. when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin Dryden.
Pur*loin", v. i.
Definition: To practice theft; to steal. Titus ii. 10.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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