pocketing

Pluralpocketings (some meanings)

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of pocket. Use this form for an action happening as you speak.

   He was pocketing the change while no one watched.

   She kept pocketing coins from the tip jar.

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2. 2
   noununcountable

   The act of taking something, often by stealing it.

   Like quietly slipping something into your bag so no one sees.

   The pocketing of office supplies cost the company a lot of money.

   Her pocketing of the spare cash got her fired.

   Similartheft, embezzlement, pilfering, misappropriation

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3. 3
   noununcountable

   A type of cloth used to make the pockets in clothes.

   The tailor ran out of pocketing halfway through the order.

   Cheap pocketing tears easily after a few washes.

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4. 4
   nouncountable

   A small hollow space shaped like a pouch.

   A deep pocketing in the cliff sheltered the nesting birds.

   The surgeon found a pocketing of fluid beneath the skin.

   Similarhollow, cavity, recess, pouch

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