[The offices of the Salt Lake Tribune] is now hidden on the top floor of a struggling shopping mall west of downtown, and its new owner—the vampirical hedge fund Alden Global Capital—sold off its share in the printing press for $23 million and simply trousered the money. (Tom Zoellner, The National Road, Counterpoint [2020], p. 135)
This word can also be a synonym for keep or take, when used in the sense above.
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