| 单词 | thievery |
| 释义 | thievery (once / 17747 pages) n Use the noun thievery when you need a colorful, old fashioned way to describe stealing: you might complain bitterly about the thievery in your neighborhood after having your third bicycle stolen in a month. If you're worried about thievery, you might install a burglar alarm or get a big barking dog. A more common way to say thievery is theft, or in a police report, larceny. It's easy to see where the word thievery comes from — to thieve is to steal, and both words come from the Old English root þeof, or thief. WORD FAMILYthievery: thieveries+/thieve: thieved, thievery, thieving, thievish/thieving: thievings/thievish: thievishly, thievishness USAGE EXAMPLESOn the day I visited, it was serving up nachos, to no obvious complaints of ethnic thievery. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) An international “Indiana Jones”-inspired game of high-stakes thievery, but now with more marriage problems and sibling rivalry. Los Angeles Times(Dec 15, 2016) If a character wanted his money back or his food back, or something consequential along those lines then the thievery would be justified. Los Angeles Times(Nov 17, 2016) n the act of taking something from someone unlawfully Syn|Hypo|Hyper larceny, stealing, theft, thieving breach of trust with fraudulent intent larceny after trust rather than after unlawful taking defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, peculationthe fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else pilferagethe act of stealing small amounts or small articles shoplifting, shrinkagethe act of stealing goods that are on display in a store robberylarceny by threat of violence biopiracybiological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use grand larceny, grand theftlarceny of property having a value greater than some amount (the amount varies by locale) petit larceny, petty, petty larcenylarceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale) skimmingfailure to declare income in order to avoid paying taxes on it rustlingthe stealing of cattle raidan attempt by speculators to defraud investors plunderagethe act of plundering (especially the embezzlement of goods on shipboard) armed robbery, heist, holdup, stickuprobbery at gunpoint caper, joba crime (especially a robbery) dacoity, dakoityrobbery by a gang of armed dacoits heist, rip-offthe act of stealing highjacking, hijackingrobbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force highway robberyrobbery of travellers on or near a public road rollingthe act of robbing a helpless person felony a serious crime (such as murder or arson) |
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