skim off en · VERB
Meanings
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To separate (the best part of something from the remainder).
There was also the influx of a third of a million road lorries, sold at giveaway prices after their war roles ceased and used by competing one-man businesses to skim off sundry agricultural freight.
2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| skimmed off | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| skimmed off | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| skims off | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| skimming off | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |