shoplifting
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈʃɑpˌlɪftɪŋ/
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- But she ends up back in Juvi in six months for shoplifting.
- shoplifting and theft
- shoplifting charges
- shoplifting offense
When I was a young teenager, I had a very severe shoplifting problem.
- When I was a young teenager, I had a very severe shoplifting problem.
- If if I said to you, you know, shoplifting is wrong, in order to become right, you should not shoplift.
- Trump was also on the campaign trail when the subject of shoplifting came up and things, well, things got a little dark.
- I started to commit petty crimes, shoplifting, breaking into cars, burglary.
- For, you know, shoplifting, stealing cars, whatever.
- And it was just silly little things like nicking car radios, shoplifting, all this sort of stuff.
- I've just done a thing with the because of the shoplifting right now with the cost of living crisis.
- I had Italian shoes that I had bought from stolen money from my shoplifting in London.
- You know, like it was just like fights at that age and like, maybe a bit of shoplifting, like just pet petticoat.
- My treat was I'd shoplift Boverel, you know, as I didn't really think the shoplifting through.
- You couldn't remotely use it for shoplifting tags, but I realized you could compute.
Examples
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Turns out that he was arrested as a kid for shoplifting.
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Trump was also on the campaign trail when the subject of shoplifting came up and things, well, things got a little dark.
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I think it was might have been a shoplifting charge or something.
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His third strike was shoplifting linens from a department store.
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Sonia says shoplifting is "no big deal" because other people do it.
Fiction book (2002) -
I started to commit petty crimes, shoplifting, breaking into cars, burglary.
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More store losses are due to internal dishonesty than shoplifting by customers.
Academic text (1993) -
Because shoplifting is theft, which is a crime, and despite what you may believe, there is no such entity as victimless crime.
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Shoplifting is a crime!
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A couple was arrested on Dec. 31 and charged with shoplifting groceries from Kroger.
Synonyms
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1.1
An act of taking someone else's property without permission to keep it
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3.7
The act of taking things from other people without permission
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5.6
The act of taking things that belong to other people without permission
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1.0
Taking something that belongs to another person without permission
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9.9
An act of stealing small items from a shop, often said as a joke
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7.5
Stealing small items from a store or workplace, often done repeatedly
Antonyms
How Serious
- NSFW
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3.2
- Formal
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7.9
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7.0
- Formal
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7.2
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2.5
- Formal
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6.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shoplifting combines shop and lift, where lift originally means 'to raise' and later came to be used to mean 'to steal'. So shoplifting literally means 'stealing from a shop', which is why we use it for taking goods from a store while pretending to be a customer.