siphon off
1siphon off — (something) to take something that was intended for someone or something else. The dictator and his close friends siphoned off up to 20 percent of the annual budget. The donated food was mostly siphoned off and sold, while the needy got almost… …
2siphon off — phr verb Siphon off is used with these nouns as the object: ↑money …
3siphon off (to) — Remove or steal (usually refers to money). ► “Indeed, Osceola County officials are now considering projects intended to siphon off business from Orange County: a new merchandise mart, a world trade center and a convention complex.” (Wall Street …
4siphon off something — siphon off (something) to take something that was intended for someone or something else. The dictator and his close friends siphoned off up to 20 percent of the annual budget. The donated food was mostly siphoned off and sold, while the needy… …
5siphon off — verb convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon • Syn: ↑siphon, ↑syphon • Derivationally related forms: ↑syphon (for: ↑syphon) • Hypernyms: ↑draw, ↑ …
6siphon off — to steal Usually by embezzlement and not necessarily of liquids: No way he could have spent more than half of what was coming in... The best guess was that Birdsong... was siphoning it off. (Hailey, 1973) Siphon is specific of… …
7siphon off — If someone siphons something off, they transfer something from one place to another, often illegally. It was discovered that he had siphoned off money from the business into an account in a tax haven …
8siphon — si‧phon [ˈsaɪfn] also syphon verb [transitive] to dishonestly take money from a business, account etc and use it for a purpose for which it was not intended: siphon something from/off something • I later found she had siphoned thousands of… …
9siphon — [[t]sa͟ɪf(ə)n[/t]] siphons, siphoning, siphoned also syphon 1) VERB If you siphon liquid from a container, you make it come out through a tube and down into a lower container by enabling the pressure of the air on it to push it out. [V n prep]… …
10siphon — si|phon1 also syphon BrE [ˈsaıfən] n [Date: 1300 1400; : French; Origin: Latin sipho pipe, tube , from Greek siphon] 1.) a bent tube used for getting liquid out of a container, used by holding one end of the tube at a lower level than the end in… …
