What's the difference between burglary and thrift?

Burglary


Definition:

  • (n.) Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The problem in the community is that the elderly who live on their own on ground floors are frightened to open the windows because of vandalism and burglary," he says.
  • (2) He let me in on the night of the burglary, he hid keys and codes throughout the building.” Claiming he did not know Basil’s identity, Jones, who has contacted Sky before, said he would not reveal it in any case as “it’s not a done thing where I come from”.
  • (3) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
  • (4) Anderson Fernandes, 22, appeared before magistrates in Manchester charged with burglary after he took two scoops of coffee ice-cream and a cone from Patisserie Valerie in the city centre.
  • (5) This dramatic fall has been repeated across nearly every category of crime, including the big "volume" crimes such as burglary and car break-ins and thefts where better security and alarms have brought about even deeper falls in the crime levels.
  • (6) The young person was involved in two house burglaries, smoked cannabis everyday, didn't attend school, had physically assaulted her mum and wasn't attending any structured positive activities.
  • (7) A group of Spanish tourists seemed indifferent to the fact that at a table a few feet away, four men plotted a burglary that captured Britain’s imagination.
  • (8) A police officer attended the scene of a burglary in progress and, following a pursuit through the house with his gun in hand, short the burglar in the back of the head.
  • (9) The men, aged 59 to 75, received prison terms ranging from six to seven years as they were sentenced at Woolwich crown court for their roles in what prosecutors called the biggest burglary in English legal history.
  • (10) People sitting out in the desert aren’t talking amongst themselves about how, ‘Joe Bloggs received a mandatory sentences for a ‘three strike’ burglary, I better not do the same thing’.” Collins said the legislation would compound recidivism rates for Aboriginal people in WA jails, rates which he said were already “astronomically high”.
  • (11) Anyway, to return to Anthony: he would plead guilty to theft but not burglary, and he had a co-defendant who wanted to plead not guilty altogether.
  • (12) The interim report found that out of a sample of 2,551 incidents that should have been recorded as crimes officers wrongly failed to record 523 of them including sexual offences, crimes of violence, robbery and burglary.
  • (13) Police said that between 60 and 70 safety deposit boxes were opened during the burglary.
  • (14) "The circumstances caused George to think he might be a robber or do something bad because of what had gone on," she said, referring to a recent series of burglaries in the development.
  • (15) During his teens and twenties, he did time in various prisons, borstals and detention centres for car theft and burglary.
  • (16) We do have clients who if they are going out for dinner will come to the facility and put on a necklace, and then come and bring it back the next day.” High-value customers are increasingly using vaults because they fear aggravated burglary in their own homes, he added.
  • (17) Carl Wood, 59, was jailed for six years on Wednesday for his role in the £14m burglary in London’s diamond district during Easter weekend last year.
  • (18) The former head of Derbyshire CID told the Guardian that Clarke's plan to increase the discounted tariff for rape when assailants admitted guilt to 50%, alongside crimes like robbery and burglary, downplayed the severity of the offence, in turn inviting officers to investigate it less thoroughly.
  • (19) Reader, the oldest of the seven men convicted of the multimillion-pound burglary in London’s diamond district, had returned to Belmarsh prison’s hospital wing after a period in the critical care unit of Woolwich hospital after a stroke, Scobie said.
  • (20) Ian Wright tweeted after the burglary: 'You won't get away with it.'

Thrift


Definition:

  • (n.) A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.
  • (n.) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.
  • (n.) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
  • (n.) One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since when did thrift become so synonymous with the middle classes?
  • (2) Pledging to replace "Labour's spendaholic government with a new government of thrift", he said: "With a Conservative government, if ministers want to impress the boss, they'll have to make their budgets smaller, not bigger.
  • (3) Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won best new artist and received three awards in the rap field before the show began with best rap album for The Heist and best rap performance and best rap song for Thrift Shop.
  • (4) Bovine viral diarrhea virus was believed to be the cause of ill-thrift since birth, resulting in death of a Holstein calf.
  • (5) As he reminded us, "Keynes talked about a ' paradox of thrift ': everyone and every country being individually wise but collectively foolish – leading to a downward spiral."
  • (6) However, studies on the aetiology of ill-thrift in young sheep indicate that arthropod-borne anaemia-producing pathogens are an important contributing factor, which cannot readily be diagnosed and controlled.
  • (7) Very few would argue with advising consolidation and thrift to an individual trying to bring debt under control.
  • (8) Festival curator Wayne Hemingway says thrift is not about buying more stuff for less, but about consuming more intelligently, reusing, recycling and thinking creatively about the way we live and consume.
  • (9) Savings are generally seen as benign and the result of virtue and thrift, but they are dangerous when handed to investment managers under pressure to produce high returns.
  • (10) Many of the new Thatcher-era first-time buyers gained their ownership through the right to buy scheme, giving council tenants the right, for the first time, to buy their homes at a hefty discount – about which Thatcher had initial reservations, due to her instinctive thrift.
  • (11) 2) At school the kids wore hippy dresses from thrift stores, and people made their own clothes.
  • (12) Two Parisian dudes who've just given us a lesson in the art of pool slides and thrift shopping.
  • (13) As a little girl, she'd visit thrift shops with her mother for outfits and back at home she amassed a suitcase of prom dresses.
  • (14) I pondered this as I sat in my regrettably pricey train seat on the way to the UK's first Festival of Thrift last weekend, held in Darlington.
  • (15) The Tory leader hammered away at the need for government to deliver "more for less", for "a government of thrift" and for "big changes for government and the role of the state".
  • (16) It's between Blurred Lines, Get Lucky, Thrift Shop, Diamonds and Locked Out Of Heaven.
  • (17) E. ovis, either alone or in combination with one or more of these parasites, caused a severe prolonged anaemia accompanied by the development of ill-thrift.
  • (18) However, in heavily infected flocks, economically significant disease does occur, mainly apparent as ill-thrift and chronic respiratory disease (maedi) in older ewes and as an indurative mastitis, which can result in delayed weight gain of suckled lambs.
  • (19) Antibiotic-resistant STIs are a way to remind ourselves of the dignity of the NHS project, its elegant combination of generosity, ambition and meaningful thrift, investing in a population because they’re worth it, whatever they’ve been up to.
  • (20) They are often reluctant to use taxis when accessible public transport isn't available, ending up home and alone, because of long-learned lessons about thrift.