Thievery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thievery \Thiev"er*y\, n.
     1. The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness.
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              Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally
              good and honest.                      --South.


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     2. That which is stolen. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "thievery":
     abstraction, annexation, appropriation, boosting, conversion,
     conveyance, embezzlement, filching, fraud, graft, larceny,
     liberation, lift, lifting, pilferage, pilfering, pinch, pinching,
     poaching, purloining, scrounging, shoplifting, snatching,
     sneak thievery, snitching, steal, stealage, stealing, swindle,
     swiping, theft, thieving, touch