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break and enternoun chiefly Canadian1The crime of entering a building by force so as to commit burglary; breaking and entering: he was charged with break and enter and possession of stolen property...- In 1995 he was convicted of uttering death threats and break and enter.
- We submit that the jury's verdict was an acceptance of that version, particularly as they rejected the break and enter.
- Magistrate courts regularly sit to deal with drunken and disorderly conduct, breaking and entering, and unpaid debts.
1.1An act of breaking and entering: residential break and enters are up 38 percent so far this year...- Maggie and Kevin investigate a break and enter while David is busy hunting down some credit card fraud.
- Breaking and entering can escalate to robbery-homicide in a few chaotic seconds.
- His crime is quiet and game-like - the clicking of keystrokes rather than the violence of breaking and entering.
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