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shoplifting

noun

Etymology

By surface analysis, shoplift + -ing. The noun sense (from 1690) predates the verb.

Definitions

  1. The action of stealing goods from a shop, store or other place of business.

    • […]William Grove for robbing his Master of twenty-sive Guineas ; and Catharine Knox for Shoplifting.
    • Shoplifting is one of the most prevalent crimes and it costs retailers millions of dollars each year.

  2. A theft from a shop during trading hours.

    • In high school, he bleached his hair and began a series of shopliftings and bicycle thefts.
    • And we hardly even consider the countless robberies, shopliftings, burglaries, carjackings, kidnappings, stalkings, intimidations and harassments.
    • When we described the 80-20 rule, we mentioned that 5% of the stores in Danvers, Massachusetts, accounted for 50% of the reported shopliftings.

  3. present participle and gerund of shoplift

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA