petty+theft

  • 11petty larceny — n: petit larceny at larceny Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. p …

    Law dictionary

  • 12Theft — • The secret taking of another s property against the reasonable will of that other Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Theft     Theft      …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 13theft — theft, larceny, robbery, burglary mean the act or crime of stealing, though they have differences in legal application. The same differences in implications and applications are observable in the agent nouns thief, larcener or larcenist, robber,… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 14theft — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ petty ▪ grand (AmE) ▪ attempted (esp. BrE) ▪ the crime of attempted theft ▪ large scale, outright …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 15Theft of the Jules Rimet Trophy — The Jules Rimet Trophy, awarded to the winner of the football World Cup, was stolen in 1966 prior to the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England. The trophy was later recovered and one man convicted being involved but the other possible culprits are still …

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  • 16theft — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. larceny, stealing. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. robbery, racket, thievery, larceny, stealing, swindling, swindle, cheating, defrauding, rapacity, fraud, piracy, burglary, pillage, pilfering, plunder,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 17petty — adj. Petty is used with these nouns: ↑annoyance, ↑argument, ↑cash, ↑corruption, ↑crime, ↑criminal, ↑dispute, ↑feud, ↑fight, ↑jealousy, ↑offence, ↑office …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 18petty larceny — noun larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale) • Syn: ↑petit larceny, ↑petty • Ant: ↑grand larceny (for: ↑petit larceny) • Hypernyms: ↑ …

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  • 19petty larceny — noun A misdemeanor larceny; an act of theft wherein the amount stolen is insufficient to constitute grand larceny …

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  • 20petty larceny — noun Law (in many US states and formerly in Britain) theft of personal property having a value less than a specified amount …

    English new terms dictionary