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A thief who enters a building with intent to steal
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burglar
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A thief who steals from premises.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Burglar \Bur"glar\, n. [OE. burg town, F. bourg, fr. LL. burgus (of German origin) + OF. lere thief, fr. L. latro. See Borough , and Larceny .] (Law) One guilty of the crime of burglary. Burglar alarm , a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a burglar alarm ▪ Neighbours heard the burglar alarm and called the police. burglar alarm cat burglar COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN alarm ▪ Ultrasonics technology is used in certain burglar alarm systems which trigger ...
Usage examples of burglar.
But owing to the stupid money system, which these laborers them selves help to keep in force, the results of their combined efforts were either usurped by an unproductive class fortunate enough to be born rich, or those shrewd enough to accumulate money, such as trust managers, bankers, real estate speculators, stock jobbers, and brokers, gamblers, burglars, money loan swindlers, high salaried clergymen, etc.
A burglar sophisticated enough to outfox a complicated alarm system should certainly know that.
There were flocks of red-beaked Cumberland paroquets that made noises like doors being broken open by burglars.
Richelieu told everyone that he had been the first to respond to the burglar alarm at the Pettit house.
Marcus explained about the visit of Cranston shortly before the strange attack on Pitman by a burglar.
The burglar waited while Inspector Popil and the polygrapher conferred in the hall outside.
Years ago Albus disguised himself as a burglar alarm salesman to go round and sell units to everyone on Privet Drive and the houses behind you as well.
Since then, her only police consultation project had been a long-term study of recidivist burglars with the Swedish Police.
The house in Tanton Gardens had been locked up and most of the valuables had been sent to the bank for safe-keeping, but there were enough portable articles of value in the house to make a good haul for any burglar.
VCR, the color television, and the most expensive stereo known to audiophiles and burglars.
The blue cloud faded away, bearing with it both Bibby and the burglar.
The notoriety gives them a clientele that is the envy of the empire, and the usual mix was present: Bonzes and Tao-shih swapped filthy stories with burglars and cutthroats, and eminent artists and poets flirted with pretty girls and boys while high government officials played cards with the pimps.
Saturday the Council of the Eureka Stockade counted in the majority honest men, themselves hard-working diggers, they would not turn burglars or permit anybody to do so in their name.
The burglars started at the top of the block, which is 100 Lenape Hill, right?
Jacques LeBlanc, neuroanatomist and amateur tyrant, and Joe No Last Name, gifted programmer and professional burglar, together developed mindwrite, co-wrote the computer language called Mindtalk, and perfected the brain-computer interface.