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Definition of pocketing : of Pocket

Synonyms:

devouring, admitting, inspiring, ingesting, gulping, accepting, engorging, absorbing, assimilating, eating, swallowing, gobbling, getting, accessing, taking, inhaling, receiving, acquiring

assuming, garnering, fetching, heaping, collecting, purchasing, catching, incurring, harvesting, netting, retrieving, capturing, winning, procuring, accumulating, luring, bagging, wrangling, obtaining, buying, annexing, adding, reaping, scoring, landing, securing, claiming, amassing, cornering

hauling, nipping, extorting, stealing, fleecing, lifting, burglarizing, pilfering, embezzling, swiping, abstracting, holding up, copping, defrauding, sticking up, poaching, heisting, swindling, mugging, plagiarizing, hijacking, plundering, looting, blackmailing, grabbing, filching, robbing, rustling, pirating, palming, shoplifting

Usage examples:

• This is called " pocketing" a bill, or " the pocket veto." - "Studies in Civics", James T. McCleary.
• " Now den, you kin git out," said she, pocketing the money. - "A Jolly Fellowship", Frank R. Stockton.
• The French meantime were concentrating on the enemy's flank with the hope of breaking through and pocketing part of the Crown Prince's advancing forces. - "Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights", Kelly Miller.