[U,C] ~ (of sth) the crime of stealing sth from a person or place:
car theft * Police are investigating the theft of computers from the company's offices. * A number of thefts have been reported recently.
compareBURGLARY, ROBBERY
seealsoTHIEF
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is theft a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, theft is tagged as noun.
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