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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
theft
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
identity theft
identity theft/fraud (=the crime of stealing another person's personal details in order to pretend to be that person)
▪ Identity theft is becoming more and more common because of the Internet.
insure (sth/sb) against loss/damage/theft/sickness etc
▪ It is wise to insure your property against storm damage.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
attempted
▪ I got charged with that and the attempted theft.
▪ Theft is excluded but this policy would cover damage caused by attempted theft. 3.
▪ The charge should be attempted theft or obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception.
▪ Facts: pleaded guilty to theft and attempted theft.
▪ Yesterday jobless James, 34, of Middlesbrough, was fined £100 by Teesside magistrates for attempted theft.
grand
▪ After a review of the facts, it appeared to me that this was a grand theft person.
▪ Among the categories dropped were battery, narcotics and weapons offenses, grand theft and indecent exposure.
▪ After several years of investigations, the Boys Ranch was indicted on criminal Medicaid fraud and grand theft charges last April.
▪ Police arrested Fotinos on suspicion of grand theft, possession of stolen property and embezzlement from a public entity, Beijen said.
guilty
▪ Black pleaded guilty to the theft and obtaining £85 by deception from Wagers bookmakers.
▪ In October a jury at Winchester Crown Court found him guilty of theft, perjury and fraudulent trading.
▪ For this reason the owner may be guilty of theft from the possessor or controller.
▪ Their decision was that a person is guilty of theft when he acquires ownership by deception.
▪ If an accused steals a cheque, he is guilty of theft of a piece of paper.
▪ The victim has only an equitable interest, and the accused is not guilty of theft of the shares.
▪ The accused may, however, be guilty of theft of the money or of obtaining the money by deception.
▪ She was held to be guilty of theft.
petty
▪ The vast majority were, for example, petty thefts, acts of vandalism, and minor assaults.
▪ They had petty thefts of eggs or a chicken, but no robbery.
▪ There had been a rash of petty thefts in the hotel and we were all warned to be vigilant.
▪ My background is petty theft and liquor store holdups and the usual drug junk.
▪ In contrast, petty theft has a very low rate of reporting to the police, and a low detection rate.
▪ So, you see, even these minor distinctions felt like petty theft.
▪ This will tend to incline them toward petty theft.
▪ In the dry parlance of a police report, it was nothing more than a petty theft.
■ NOUN
art
▪ In addition, art thefts are likely to be pursued by their rightful owners for well over twenty years.
car
▪ Last summer he was placed under a supervision order after being found guilty of burglary, armed robbery and car theft.
▪ Cases dated to 1988, and involved car thefts, robberies and other non-homicide felonies.
▪ In the past three months, there have been some 150 arrests in Oxford for car theft.
▪ Members of the groups are suspected in crimes including car theft, drug dealing and killings.
▪ For all of 1999, police registered 5,218 homicides, 33,685 battery cases and 40,940 robberies and car thefts.
▪ This, therefore, is a quick fix Bill. Car theft is a matter of great public concern.
▪ Equipment worth forty thousand pounds was stolen last year and car theft is once again a major problem.
charge
▪ That left the theft charge on which Ward was cleared yesterday.
▪ Peoples has been arrested numerous times since 1978 on drug and theft charges.
employee
▪ Thus, such crimes as embezzlement and other examples of employee theft will not be included in this discussion of corporate crime.
▪ If it is discovered, employee theft is one of the least stigmatised of crimes.
■ VERB
admit
▪ He admitted going equipped for theft, another burglary and asked for four similar offences to be taken into consideration.
▪ Yesterday the girl, who can not be named, appeared before Darlington Juvenile Court where she admitted theft.
arrest
▪ He was arrested for theft on the same day as my godson, each in a different part of Brighton.
▪ Rose has been arrested for theft, arson, and attempted murder.
▪ In June 1989, 11 slum-dwelling children in Delhi were arrested on suspicion of theft and tortured.
▪ Most youngsters are arrested for theft - 70 percent of those on Taylor House rehabilitation schemes - and persistent offending is declining.
▪ He paid the lower price at the checkout but was then arrested and charged with theft.
convict
▪ For example, knowing some one has been convicted of theft might influence one's reactions and attitudes to that person.
▪ Police said Bokin has also been repeatedly convicted of theft, possession of stolen property and writing bad checks.
▪ The appellant was charged with and convicted of the theft of the £6.
▪ The Forbes article stated that Glushkov was convicted in 1982 of theft of state property.
include
▪ These include theft and burglary, which involve questions of personal honesty.
▪ They include theft, adultery and fornication, wine drinking, highway banditry, apostasy to of the faith and rebellion.
▪ And the same is true of theft, including theft of copyright.
▪ Other crimes include the theft of several items left outside houses or in unlocked cars.
investigate
▪ House raid: Detectives are investigating the theft of a video recorder from a house in Millpool Close, Hartlepool.
▪ In one of the worst nights on record, officers were called to investigate 20 separate thefts from cars.
▪ Gates gone: Tyneside police are investigating a spate of thefts of wrought iron garden gates.
▪ They direct traffic, investigate thefts and search for illegal weapons at roadblocks.
▪ Detectives are investigating a spate of thefts from a new housing development in Derry.
▪ The constable didn't inform Ulster detectives who were called in to investigate only a car theft.
involve
▪ Darlington magistrates heard the 14-year-old was involved with thefts from three handbags while their owners worked in shops.
▪ The majority of incidents-193-#involved property theft.
▪ More than half of all recorded crimes are car crimes, involving the theft of vehicles or the theft of property from vehicles.
▪ Cases dated to 1988, and involved car thefts, robberies and other non-homicide felonies.
▪ Two North-East men were jailed recently for a number of crimes involving horse theft, including that of Mrs James' animals.
report
▪ I reported the camera theft to the police, who seemed eager to help.
▪ Campers and backpackers have reported thefts of food, sleeping bags and clothing from their coolers and tents, according to authorities.
▪ In reality, Wilson had tightened up reporting procedures so that fewer thefts escaped the record due to carelessness, corruption, etc.
▪ Always keep a copy of your card's emergency telephone number so you can report any theft immediately.
▪ Last year there were 1,072,241 reported thefts of cars and from cars, and 464,400 domestic burglaries.
▪ Could have stayed and reported the theft of his wallet to the police if he hadn't produced that revolver.
▪ Karen reported the theft the police and the ranger, and spent hours driving around the roads looking for Tang.
▪ Police said last night that two juveniles had been reported in connection with thefts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ If your passport has been stolen, report the theft to your nearest embassy immediately.
▪ Most of the thefts occurred during the weekend.
▪ Police believe they have found the man responsible for a series of car thefts in the past year.
▪ Pushard was arrested and charged with auto theft.
▪ Security has been tightened since the theft of a $150,000 oil painting.
▪ The mayor is taking credit for decreases in theft since he took office.
▪ The rate of bicycle theft in this area is very high.
▪ This warehouse is not adequately protected against theft or vandalism.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Davitt is serving a six-month jail sentence in the theft.
▪ Drink, assault and theft of a police car.
▪ During the next eight years Christie served a number of prison sentences for theft and, on one occasion, assault.
▪ However, while your policy is suspended we will still insure your car against loss or damage by fire or theft.
▪ In some places such thefts were relatively casual.
▪ Subsidence claims showed marked decline, but theft claims continue to rise.
▪ The vast majority were, for example, petty thefts, acts of vandalism, and minor assaults.
▪ These include theft and burglary, which involve questions of personal honesty.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Theft

Theft \Theft\, n. [OE. thefte, AS. [thorn]i['e]f[eth]e,

  1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.

    Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed, however slightly, from its former position; and it must be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of the thief. See Larceny, and the Note under Robbery.

  2. The thing stolen. [R.]

    If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, . . . he shall restore double.
    --Ex. xxii. 4.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
theft

mid-13c., from Old English þeofð (West Saxon þiefð) "theft," from Proto-Germanic *theubitho (cognates: Old Frisian thiufthe, Old Norse þyfð), from *theubaz "thief" (see thief) + abstract formative suffix *-itha (cognate with Latin -itatem; see -th (2)).

Wiktionary
theft

n. The act of steal property.

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WordNet
theft

n. the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International" [syn: larceny, thievery, thieving, stealing]

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Wikipedia
Theft

In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it. The word is also used as an informal shorthand term for some crimes against property, such as burglary, embezzlement, larceny, looting, robbery, shoplifting, library theft, and fraud (i.e., obtaining money under false pretenses). In some jurisdictions, theft is considered to be synonymous with larceny; in others, theft has replaced larceny. Someone who carries out an act of or makes a career of theft is known as a thief. The act of theft is also known by other terms such as stealing, thieving, and filching.

Theft is the name of a statutory offence in California, Canada, England and Wales, Hong Kong, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Victoria (Australia) and South Australia.

Theft (disambiguation)

Theft is the illegal taking of another person's property without that person's freely-given consent.

Theft may also refer to:

  • A Theft, a 1989 American novel
  • " The Theft", a 2006 metalcore song
  • Theft: A Love Story, a 2006 Australian novel
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Usage examples of "theft".

The Word and, in particular, the precepts of the Decalog are the means with those who acknowledge all kinds of murder, adultery, theft and false witness to be sins.

But pray, listen: all human beings who are born, however numerous and of whatever religion, can be saved if only they acknowledge God and live according to the precepts of the Decalog, which forbid committing murder, adultery, theft, and false witness because to do such things is contrary to religion and therefore contrary to God.

Once a religion is established in a nation the Lord leads that nation according to the precepts and tenets of its own religion, and He has provided that there should be precepts in every religion like those in the Decalog, that God should be worshiped, His name not be profaned, a holy day be observed, that parents be honored, murder, adultery and theft not be committed, and false witness not be spoken.

Hatred does, and revenge, theft and fraud, adultery and whoredom, pride and presumption, and the rest.

They know and perceive, therefore, that murder, adultery, theft and false witness are sins and accordingly shun them on that account.

Lyal, Sieur Den Rannion, to Ingaret, Messire Den Perinal, by the hand in person of Milral Arman, of common height with red hair and blue eyes, a scar on his sword arm and a brand of horse theft on his off hand.

He urged Bott to notify the police of the theft, but the old man was prostrated with grief, and it was the wife who, with Ellen Chancy, finally accompanied Flechter to Police Headquarters.

The administration slices crime horizontally into categories: theft, bunco, vice, homicide.

This cashless system will be readily accepted by the world because it will counteract robbery, credit card theft, poor credit ratings, and bad checks.

Old Conc might have educated them in the arts of primitive war, but both tribes observed strict prohibitions against theft.

Suppose that the cryptanalyst obtains the plaintext of a given cryptogram, perhaps through theft or the error of a radio operator.

Beyond that, in his twenty-seven years he has piled up a tall and ugly police record: a multitude of arrests, from petty theft and battery, to rape, narcotics offenses and public cunnilingus -- and all this without a single felony conviction, being officially guilty of nothing more than what any spirited citizen might commit in some drunk or violent moment of animal weakness.

I was much pleased, for I had been afraid that the women had gone out to get assistance and to have us arrested, and the robbery of our provisions reassured me, as I felt certain that the poor wretches had gone out of the way so as to secure impunity for their theft.

God knows how gladly I would have taken them, and how I would have laughed the monk to scorn if he had accused me of theft!

If I had not succeeded in bringing a certain theft home to him, it would have been laid to my door, and I should have been dishonoured.