Word Meanings - SHOPLIFTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.

Related words: (words related to SHOPLIFTING)

• COMMITTAL
  The act of commiting, or the state of being committed; commitment.
• STEALINGLY
  By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• STEALTH
  1. The act of stealing; theft. The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw. Spenser. 2. The thing stolen; stolen property. "Sluttish dens . . . serving to cover stealths." Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The bringing to
• STEALTHLIKE
  Stealthy; sly. Wordsworth.
• STEALTHFUL
  Given to stealth; stealthy. -- Stealth"ful*ly, adv. -- Stealth"ful*ness, n.
• COMMITTER
  1. One who commits; one who does or perpetrates. South. 2. A fornicator. T. Decker.
• STEALER
  The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern. (more info) 1. One who steals; a thief.
• STEALTHINESS
  The state, quality, or character of being stealthy; stealth.
• STEALING
  1. The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny. 2. That which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural.
• COMMITTABLE
  Capable of being committed.
• STEALTHILY
  In a stealthy manner.
• STEALTHY
  Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly. with his stealthy pace, . . . Moves like a ghost. Shak.
• LARCENY
  The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement. Grand larceny and Petit larceny are distinctions having reference to the nature or value of the property stolen.
• COMMITTIBLE
  Capable of being committed; liable to be committed. Sir T. Browne.
• STEAL
  A handle; a stale, or stele. And in his hand a huge poleax did bear. Whose steale was iron-studded but not long. Spenser.
• COMMITTEEMAN
  A member of a committee.
• COMMITTEE
  One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or bussiness is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together. Commitee of the whole , a committee, embracing all the members
• ANYTHING
  1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
• SUBPERIOSTEAL
  Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation , a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.
• PERIOSTEAL
  Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.
• FIBROCHONDROSTEAL
  Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart.
• SUBCOMMITTEE
  An under committee; a part or division of a committee. Yet by their sequestrators and subcommittees abroad . . . those orders were commonly disobeyed. Milton.
• NONCOMMITTAL
  A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.
• PAROSTEAL
  Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification.
• ECTOSTEAL
  Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification.
• OTOSTEAL
  An auditory ossicle. R. Owen.
• MANSTEALER
  A person who steals or kidnaps a human being or beings.
• OSTEAL
  Osseous.