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Definition of theft noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

theft

noun
 
 
/θeft/
 
/θeft/
[uncountable, countable]
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  1. theft (of something) the crime of stealing something 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.
    compare burglary, robbery see also grand theft, identity theft, thief
    Extra Examples
    • She admitted the theft of three pairs of shoes.
    • They are accused of theft from a newsagent's shop.
    • a spate of thefts over the Christmas period
    • the crime of attempted theft
    • the wholesale theft of copyrighted music
    Topics Crime and punishmentb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • petty
    • grand
    • attempted
    • …
    … of thefts
    • series
    • spate
    • string
    • …
    preposition
    • theft from
    • theft of
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    Word OriginOld English thīefth, thēofth, of Germanic origin; related to thief.
See theft in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee theft in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
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