Definition of "squirrelled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of squirrel. (verb)

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• "Turns out after the initial run on Baghdad they squirrelled Petraeus away at the Army war college and he rewrote the book on counterinsurgency (literally)."
• "Two World Bank directors are flying to the Middle East this weekend to work on recovering some of the assets squirrelled away by members of the deposed regimes in Egypt and Tunisia."
• "After Tony Crosland died when foreign secretary, in 1977, she had to sell the house they lived in and the country refuge they'd just bought in Oxfordshire: there was no pile of political loot to fall back on, no expense account bundles squirrelled away."