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means Taking something you're not entitled to — someone else's employee, land, or wildlife — by quietly moving in on it without permission.

from The word traces to Old French 'pocher,' meaning to poke or thrust, which also gave us the idea of pushing something into a pocket. From there it split into two paths: one sense became the cooking method — eggs poked gently into water — and another became 'pouch,' the bag you'd stash illegally caught game in. The illicit-hunting sense of 'poaching' grew from that pouching imagery — sneaking game off someone else's land and into your sack. The business meaning, stealing staff or clients, is a much later figurative stretch of that same trespassing idea.