how to pronounce poacher

/ˈpəʊ.tʃəɹ/

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An example use of poacher in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… as the sort of poacher game keeper role …”

meanings of poacher

noun:

A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally, one who poaches; a person who illegally takes animals or plants from the wild.
A vessel with shallow cuplike compartments in which eggs are cooked over boiling water.
An attacker with good movement inside the penalty box, see Wikipedia:Goal poacher.
The American wigeon.
Any of type of elongated fish in the family Agonidae, also known as alligatorfish, starsnout, hooknose and rockhead.

poacher frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word poacher occurs in english on average 0.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics poacher can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that poacher can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) life, nature, and living environment;