shoplifting 1 of 2

noun

Definition of shopliftingnext
as in pilfering

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shoplifting

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verb

present participle of shoplift
as in poaching

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoplifting
  1. grabbing
  2. picking
  3. burglary
  4. abduction
  5. seizing
  6. petit larceny
  7. carjacking
  8. petty larceny
Verb
  • Looking ahead, its beer business should continue grabbing market share and its hard to imagine the wine-and-spirits unit getting much worse.
    Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Wary of the media spotlight, Dan Wilks made fewer headline-grabbing campaign donations after that.
    Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of grabbing
Verb
  • Governments often do a poor job of picking winners.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • These racists were then able to spin a narrative about how Black players were picking on Clark, relying on all the racist stereotypes of Black people as dangerous, violent, and treacherous.
    Susan M. Shaw, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of picking
Noun
  • Residential burglary: Between 9:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., someone entered a residence in the 19000 block of Scotland Drive through an unlocked rear sliding glass door and stole tools for a loss valued at approximately $868.
    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Across the state, shoplifting rates rose during the same time period but were still lower than the pre-pandemic levels in 2019, while commercial burglaries and robberies have become more prevalent in urban counties, the study says.
    Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of burglary
Noun
  • Cuéllar later refuted the suspicion that he was affiliated with the abduction.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Napolitano, to this day, insists the abduction happened.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of abduction
Verb
  • Like Harris, Walz did his debate prep in a swing state, seizing the opportunity to log a few extra days in a battleground and potentially earn some goodwill among voters there.
    Dan Mangan,Kevin Breuninger,Annie Nova,Rebecca Picciotto,Josephine Rozzelle,Brian Schwartz,Ece Yildirim, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2024
  • After a lifetime of being objectified, Pamela Anderson is entering a new era—and seizing control.
    Emily Maddick, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of seizing
Noun
  • In 2020, Drago was tried and convicted of criminally negligent homicide, petit larceny, and criminal mischief and sentenced to nine months in prison.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Williams has two pending assault cases in Brooklyn, and the attack came just two days after he was busted on petit larceny charges for stealing a victim’s wallet in Midtown Manhattan, Hall said.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 24 June 2024
Definition of petit larceny
Noun
  • The incidents – which included assault with a deadly weapon, carjacking and robbery – happened between November 2023 and September of this year, San Jose police Officer Tanya Hernandez said in a news release.
    Jason Green, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Separately, carjackings are down 16 percent compared with the same period last year, according to county data.
    Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
Definition of carjacking
Noun
  • At a brief Manhattan Criminal Court hearing, Wojciech Czech, 45, admitted to one count of misdemeanor petty larceny in a plea deal with prosecutors that required him to quit his job.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The third cop charged, Officer Jonathan Gonzalez, resigned from the NYPD in December and pleaded guilty in February to petty larceny and official misconduct.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 6 June 2024
Definition of petty larceny
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