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Shoplifting   /ʃˈɑplˌɪftɪŋ/   Listen
Shoplifting

noun
1.
The act of stealing goods that are on display in a store.  Synonym: shrinkage.






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"Shoplifting" Quotes from Famous Books



... license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal. filibustering, filibusterism[obs3]; burglary; housebreaking; badger game*. robbery, highway robbery, hold-up* [U.S.], mugging. peculation, embezzlement; fraud &c. 545; larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting. thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia[obs3], den of Cacus, den of thieves. blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand [U.S.]. [person who commits theft] thief &c. 792. V. steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim|, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus



Words linked to "Shoplifting" :   shrinkage, theft, thieving, thievery, larceny, stealing, shoplift



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