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].
(V)- to hover around a person or peice of equipment in order to ensure that you will be the next user of the particular peice of equipment. (N)- I was at the gym jogging on the treadmill and this vulcher caim up to me and stood beside the treadmill for 30 minutes until I was finished. I probabley would have used it a while longer had it not been for the vulcher's creepy stare. (V)- I went to the gym to lift some weights but the only pair of 25lb weights were being used by somebody else, so I vulchered the guy until I creeped him out and he left.