Definition of "siphoning" [siphoning]

• Present participle of siphon. (verb)

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• "Michael Steele is a second choice, but I have doubts that he is going to succeed in siphoning off blacks from the Dems."
• "In the long run, we see that freer markets can make you so much wealthier that the authoritarian's advantage in siphoning wealth to make war becomes overwhelmed."
• "But the idea of siphoning people off to an unidentified place chosen by public officials to me distorts the great mix we have now with public, private and parochial."