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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the act of taking something from someone unlawfully;
- Example: "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International"
[syn: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Thievery \Thiev"er*y\, n. 1. The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness. [1913 Webster] Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest. --South. [1913 Webster] 2. That which is stolen. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

thievery n 1: the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International" [syn: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "thievery": abstraction, annexation, appropriation, boosting, conversion, conveyance, embezzlement, filching, fraud, graft, larceny, liberation, lift, lifting, pilferage, pilfering, pinch, pinching, poaching, purloining, scrounging, shoplifting, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, steal, stealage, stealing, swindle, swiping, theft, thieving, touch