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Siphoned

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1859, OED Evaluation: N/A

To draw off or bring up (liquid, etc.) by means of a siphon.

ExampleMeaning
Yeah, you would. It's- it's Ontario, there's lots of corrupt cops. Tons. Giuliani, like, caught a bunch of them. And he- I don't know what he did but it wasn't that much. They were like taking money that was supposed to be given to pay informants and they were like siphoning it into their own bank accounts and stuff. Yeah.
ExampleMeaning
The only thing that I 've ever gotten stolen was- when I- the day I got married, someone stole a case of beer from our backyard, someone stole gas out of the car. Siphoned it out of the car.
ExampleMeaning
So I hired three or four c-- ah students out of college um didn't have a lot of accounting experience but they were (inc) and- and one of them got siphoned off into a- the regulation and he ah- he impressed the general manager pretty good um not always in a good way but negatively, and he cut the feet out from underneath me and he become the treasurer, all of this ah overnight.