fleecing
present participle offleece
| 单词 | fleecing |
| 释义 | fleecing present participle offleece fleece verb[T] informaluk/fliːs/us/fliːs/to take someone'smoneydishonestly, bychargingtoo muchmoneyor bycheatingthem: Thatrestaurantreally fleeced us! Cheating & tricking
Examplesoffleecingfleecing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. He isfleecingpeople practically down to the skin. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There are hundreds of cases that could, and should have been dealt with involving crooked directors, deliberatelyfleecingthe public. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 This was thefleecingof all of the fat of the external services. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They are there only for the purpose offleecingthe people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 This may provide more scope forfleecingthe players, and more scope for the growth of crime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We are trying to find out who it is that isfleecingthe public. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The danger to the public house is the itinerant professional gambler who makes his livingfleecingfools. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Fleecingthe workforce, insecurity, expensive private care, commercialising the pension system, poverty and social exclusion. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English They are quite prepared to pay the fine, and the next day they are backfleecingthe tourists. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 But such companies have beenfleecingthe public of millions of pounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is unaccountable and in a sense it isfleecingour taxpayers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 He made his money byfleecingsomebody else. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The companies arefleecingthe taxpayer and siphoning funds—legally, at the moment—that should be going into social housing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Does it not show that we can have quality local services withoutfleecingtaxpayers? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The second way in which insiders favour themselves is by churning the market andfleecingexternal investors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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