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theft
/θɛft/
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What does theft mean?
noun
- The act of stealing property.
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A perception caused him to withdraw his own from hers as suddenly as if he had been caught in a theft.
Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at night.
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Of course, not only concerning some theft by a servant girl, but always when we are trying to understand some human weakness.
The theft was discovered by the relentless department store detective who, for "the sake of example," insisted upon taking the case into court.
Will the just man or citizen ever be guilty of sacrilege or theft, or treachery either to his friends or to his country?