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Examples of pilferage
pilferage
To safeguard precious metals against loss through pilferage, burglary or attack.
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As prices fell to about $1.30 in late December, pilferage appeared to decline.
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As retailers know, a certain amount of pilferage is a cost of doing business.
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He puts his pilferage at a modest 2kg of rice for every 52kg-sack he handles.
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For some stores, losses from shoplifting and employee pilferage are running as high as 6%.
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They also may be used to help resist or indicate tampering or pilferage.
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Easy access, however, can also allow more pilferage and shoplifting.
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Pilferage is up, sometimes because of organized rings of thieves.
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Overheads are higher in the slums, a result of such things as pilferage and steep insurance costs.
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- The act of stealing small amounts or small articles
- Pilferage is the theft of part of the contents of a package. It may also include theft of the contents but leaving the package, perhaps resealed with bogus contents. Small packages can be pilfered from a larger package such as a shipping container. ...
- A recurrent theft of small items of little value
- Petty theft, especially theft of articles in less than package lots.
- As used in marine insurance policies, the term denotes petty thievery-the taking of small parts of a shipment-as opposed to the theft of a whole shipment or large unit. ...
- Shoplifting, theft of money, or product tampering by employees or customers.
- The amount of shortages from customer, employee, or vendor theft within the facility (as opposed to shortages caused by burglaries or rob-beries).
- Theft not limited to the taking of a whole package or all of the property insured.
- Theft of materials on show floor.
