Thievery

Definition: Thievery

Thievery

Noun

1. The act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "thievery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Thievery

Stealing

Noun: stealing; Verb: theft, thievery, latrociny, direption; abstraction, appropriation; plagiary, plagiarism; autoplagiarism; latrocinium.

Crosswords: Thievery

Books

• Security for Schools and Centers--How to Safeguard Personnel and Participants from Thievery, Fire and Attack. 30P (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

This was a 20 percent increase from 1992. The children themselves often become involved with alcohol, drugs, prostitution, and petty thievery. (references)

Children

Mexico

Street children often become involved with alcohol, drugs, prostitution, petty thievery, and increasingly, violent crimes. (references)

Guatemala

Criminals--reported to include private security guards and corrupt police or military personnel--often recruited these children into thievery or prostitution rings. (references)

Economic History

Central African Republic

Working with the French, the C.A.R. military is attempting to provide professional training and decentralize its troops in an effort to combat road bandits, thievery, and poaching throughout the C.A.R. territory. (references)

Human Rights

Saudi Arabia

In accordance with Shari'a, the authorities may punish repeated thievery and other repeated offenses by amputation of the right hand and left foot. (references)

Kiribati

On some outer islands, the island councils occasionally order strokes with palm fronds to be administered for public drunkenness and other minor offenses, such as petty thievery. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

vjedhje (abduction, burglary, larceny, lift, peculation, picking, pinch, rapine, robbery, steal, stealing, stealth, theft, trousering), hajdutllëk. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ممارسة السرقة, ‏لصوصية (brigandage, larceny), ‏سرقة (larceny, lift, pilfering, pinch, plunder, robbery, steal, stealing, stealthiness, stick up, theft, trash). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кражба (job, larceny, lift, pinch, rip off, robbery, steal, stealing, theft), крадене (steal, stealing). (various references)

Czech

zlodìjství. (various references)

Farsi 

سرقت (Larceny, Lift, Prowl, Robbery, Theft), دزدی (Burglary, Larceny, Lift, Nip, Robbery, Theft). (various references)

French

vol (theft). (various references)

German

Diebstahl (abstraction, burglary, larceny, pilfering, plunder, theft, thieving). (various references)

Greek 

κλεψιά (theft), κλοπή (crib, heist, larceny, piracy, robbery, steal, stealing, stealth, theft). (various references)

Hebrew 

גנבה (larceny, pilferage, robbery, theft). (various references)

Hungarian

tolvajlás (filch, larcenous action, larceny, pilferage, pilfering, robbery, stealth, theft). (various references)

Indonesian

panjang tangan (light-fingered, prone to thievery). (various references)

Italian

ladrocinio (robbery, theft). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

手癖 (compulsive thievery, sticky-fingered), 板の間稼ぎ (bathhouse thievery). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いたのまかせぎ (bathhouse thievery), てくせ (compulsive thievery, sticky-fingered). (various references)

Manx

geid (kidnap, larceny, pinch, pocket, purloin, rustle, steal, thieve, thieving). (various references)

Pig Latin

ieverythay

Portuguese

roubo (abstraction, burglary, filch, haul, marble, pilferage, ravishment, robbery, spoil, spoliation, stealing, theft), ladroagem, gatunagem, furto (abstraction, filch, picking, theft). (various references)

Romanian

pungãşie (confiscation, do, falseness, fraud, knavery, rascality, snap, swindle, theft), hoţie (burglary, robbery, stealing, stealth, theft), furt (abstraction, burglarious, burglary, defalcation, embezzlement, job, larceny, lift, robbery, stealth, theft). (various references)

Russian 

кража (heist, larceny, lift, pinch, robbery, steal, theft), воровство (larceny, picking, stealing, stealings, theft). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lopovluk (theft, thieving), krađa (larceny, pickings, pinch, snitch, stealing, theft). (various references)

Spanish

robo (abstraction, job, ravishment, robbery, stealing, theft), hurto (larceny, petty larceny, pilferage, robbery, shoplifting, stealing, swag, theft). (various references)

Swedish

tjuveri, stöld (abstraction, larceny, robbery, steal, stealing, theft). (various references)

Thai

การขโมย (theft). (various references)

Turkish

hırsızlık (burglary, heist, hijack, hijacking, larceny, pilferage, rip off, robbery, shoplifting, shop-lifting, steal, theft), çalıntı mal (spoil, swag). (various references)

Ukranian 

крадіжка (larceny, rip off, robbery, steal, stealing, stealth, theft), покража. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự ăn trộm (robbery, theft), sự ăn cắp (abstraction, filching). (various references)

Misspellings

"Thievery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thiefery. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: either, thieve, thrive, verite, verity.

-3 letters: ether, evert, every, evite, eyrie, ither, reive, retie, revet, rivet, their, there, three, veery, yirth.

-4 letters: eery, ever, eyer, eyre, heir, here, hire, hive, hyte, rete, rite, rive, thee, they, thir, tier, tire, tivy, tree, trey, tyee, tyer, tyre, veer, vert, very, vier, yeti.

-5 letters: ere, eth, eve.

+2 letters: everything.

+3 letters: hyperactive.

+4 letters: hyperactives, hypertensive.

+5 letters: hyperreactive, hypertensives, hypervelocity, hypervirulent.

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