(idiomatic) To use resources that legitimately belong to or are needed by one party in order to satisfy a legitimate need of another party, especially within the same organization or group; to solve a problem in a way that makes another problem worse, producing no net gain.

plural of petty theft

A theft of property having a value lower than a certain small amount set forth in a statute, and considered to be a less serious class of crime.

plural of petabit

A Molotov cocktail.

(metrology) An SI unit of radioactivity equal to 10¹⁵ becquerels. Symbol: P

plural of petabecquerel

(Canada, Navy) A warrant officer belonging to one of the two classes of chief petty officer: chief petty officer first class and chief petty officer second class.

plural of chief petty officer

plural of petrol bomb