This term is used by companies that offer subscription services to clients for example, telephone carriers, Internet service providers, and hosts. It is a measure of the revenue generated by one customer phone, pager, etc., per unit time, typically per year or month.
filch. vb. 1. (tr) to steal or take surreptitiously in small amounts; pilfer. [C16 filchen to steal, attack, perhaps from Old English gefylce band of men].
Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense filches, present participle filching, past tense, past participle filched verb If you say that someone filches something, you mean they steal it, especially when you do not consider this to be a very serious crime.