POACH

(TAKE) [verb] - to catch and kill (an animal) without permission on someone else's land, or (figurative) to take and use for yourself unfairly or dishonestly (esp. someone else's ideas or a person who works for someone else)The farmer claimed that he shot the men because they were poaching on his land. [I]Measures are being taken to try and stop elephants being poached for the ivory from their tusks. [T](figurative) I don't want to seem as if I'm poaching on your territory (= starting to do something that is part of your job), but I'd like to handle the advertising for this product myself. [I](figurative) They were furious when one of their best managers was poached by (= persuaded to go and work for) another company. [T](figurative) Grant has been poached from England by an Italian team. [T](figurative) Jeff always poaches my ideas, and then pretends that they're his own. [T]