"skim off" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skims off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skimming off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skimmed off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skimmed off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "skim off (third-person singular simple present skims off, present participle skimming off, simple past and past participle skimmed off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51",
          "text": "There was also the influx of a third of a million road lorries, sold at giveaway prices after their war roles ceased and used by competing one-man businesses to skim off sundry agricultural freight.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To separate (the best part of something from the remainder)."
      ],
      "id": "en-skim_off-en-verb-ZxpAwmvp",
      "links": [
        [
          "separate",
          "separate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "skim off"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skims off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skimming off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skimmed off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "skimmed off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "skim off (third-person singular simple present skims off, present participle skimming off, simple past and past participle skimmed off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (off)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51",
          "text": "There was also the influx of a third of a million road lorries, sold at giveaway prices after their war roles ceased and used by competing one-man businesses to skim off sundry agricultural freight.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To separate (the best part of something from the remainder)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "separate",
          "separate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "skim off"
}