| Main Entry: | thievery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theft |
Synonyms: |
burglary, filching, larceny, pilfering, robbery, stealing, thievishness |
| Main Entry: | graft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payoff for fraud |
Synonyms: |
bribe, corruption, gain, hat*, hush money, juice*, money, money under the table, pay, payola, peculation, shake*, share, skimming, squeeze*, thievery |
| Notes: | a graft is one thing attached to another by insertion or implantation so it becomes part of it; a splice is the joining of two things end-to-end to make a new whole |
| Main Entry: | larceny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theft |
Synonyms: |
burglary, crime, lift, misappropriation, pilfering, pinch, purloining, robbery, steal, stealing, thievery, thieving, touch* |
| Main Entry: | rip-off |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick; robbery |
Synonyms: |
cheat, con*, exploitation, fraud, gyp, larceny, lift*, pinch*, purloining, racket, steal, stealing, swindle, theft, thievery, thieving |
Antonyms: |
gift, giving, offering |
| Main Entry: | robbery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stealing |
Synonyms: |
break-in, burglary, caper, embezzlement, felony, heist, hit, holdup, job, larceny, looting, mortal sin, mugging, purse-snatching, stickup, theft, thievery, unlawful act, wrongdoing |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | rapacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plunder |
Synonyms: |
marauding, stealing, theft, thievery, thieving |
| Main Entry: | rapacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | greed |
Synonyms: |
avarice, covetousness, cupidity, greediness, rapaciousness, thievery, voracity |
Antonyms: |
generosity |
| 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: | theft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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