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pilferage

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Main Entry: pilferage
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: larceny

Synonyms:

burglary, crime, lift, misappropriation, pilfering, pinch, purloining, robbery, steal, stealing, theft, thievery, thieving, touch*
Main Entry: burglary
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: stealing from residence, business

Synonyms:

break-in, breaking and entering, caper, crime, filching, heist, housebreaking, larceny, owl job, pilferage, prowl, robbery, safecracking, second-story work, sting, theft, thieving
Notes: burglary can take place when the victim is not there and is the theft of property without the owner being aware of the crime; in robbery, the victim is present and is confronted
Main Entry: embezzlement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: stealing money, often from employer

Synonyms:

abstraction, appropriation, defalcation, filching, fraud, larceny, misapplication, misappropriation, misuse, peculation, pilferage, pilfering, purloining, skimming, theft, thieving

Antonyms:

compensation, pay, reimbursement, return
Main Entry: heist
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: burglary, robbery

Synonyms:

break-in, breaking and entering, caper, crime, five-finger discount, holdup, larceny, pilferage, rip-off, stickup, sting, theft
Main Entry: theft
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: stealing

Synonyms:

annexation, appropriation, break-in, burglary, caper, cheating, crime, defrauding, deprivation, embezzlement, extortion, filch, fleece, fraud, grab*, heist, holdup, hustle*, job*, larceny, lift*, looting, mugging, peculation, pilferage, pilfering, pillage, pinch*, piracy, plunder, purloining, racket, rapacity, rip-off, robbery, robbing, score*, shoplifting, snatch*, snitch, steal, stickup, swindle, swindling, swiping, thievery, thieving, touch*, vandalism

Antonyms:

return
Related Words
Main Entry: theft
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
light, backberend, burglarious, furacious, furtive, handhabend, kleptic, lestobiotic, predaceous, predal, predatorial, predatory, raptorial, reft, stolen, thieving, thievish
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