(n.) One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Female offenders report most of their income as coming from drugs sales, shoplifting, and larceny.
(2) They were looting, not shoplifting, and challenging the police for control of the streets, not stealing [policemen’s] hubcaps.
(3) The girl had been caught shoplifting with her mother, and had a long history of non-attendance at school.
(4) The new ban will mean that an offender who receives a simple caution for a shoplifting offence should not get another simple caution for further theft-related offences within the next two years.
(5) I embrace everyone and thank you!” Tsarnaeva, a Russian native who left the US for Dagestan in 2012 after failing to meet a shoplifting charge, has always vocally maintained her son’s innocence.
(6) He was high when he went to the Maison Blanche store, and he says that as a result he shoplifted “without thinking”.
(7) Some 40% of prisoners committed crimes to support their habit; 95% of street prostitution and 80% of shoplifting is due to addiction.
(8) The Association of British Insurers recently released research that showed how fake car crashes helped push the level of insurance fraud to a record £1.3bn in 2013, an 18% jump on the previous year and more than double the cost of the UK's shoplifting bill.
(9) This article presents a typology for differential assessment of and intervention with shoplifters.
(10) The data also shows an 8% rise in fraud and a 5% increase in shoplifting.
(11) In April, convicted defendants became liable for a flat rate, means-blind court fee that is the same for shoplifting as dangerous driving.
(12) Of the parents she supports who work (only around 16% of them are in work, or have worked), many have admitted they are shoplifting for food.
(13) Morris was under no illusion it would be easy, but he had unwavering hope and was wholly committed to ensuring his son would go on to live a clean and happy life after completing his 11-month sentence for shoplifting.
(14) For more than a decade shoplifting first offenses by people over the age of 60 have been increasing.
(15) The Dover Express , citing a former cellmate, reported that Dainus had earlier served a three-month sentence for shoplifting.
(16) We ascribe the shoplifting to impairment of social judgment, which was one of the observed features of a dementia.
(17) He gives an impeccably liberal answer about "your teenage son" being wrongly arrested for shoplifting – should he have his DNA kept on file?
(18) Ronald Washington, 48, is also serving life without parole in Angola, in his case for shoplifting two Michael Jordan jerseys from a Foot Action sportswear store in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 2004.
(19) You were caught shoplifting in Marks & Spencer in Islington… I was.
(20) It says, having prevented damaged teens from doing too much joy-riding and shoplifting, we're no longer overly concerned about what happens to them.
Shoplifting
Definition:
(n.) Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.
Example Sentences:
(1) Female offenders report most of their income as coming from drugs sales, shoplifting, and larceny.
(2) They were looting, not shoplifting, and challenging the police for control of the streets, not stealing [policemen’s] hubcaps.
(3) The girl had been caught shoplifting with her mother, and had a long history of non-attendance at school.
(4) The new ban will mean that an offender who receives a simple caution for a shoplifting offence should not get another simple caution for further theft-related offences within the next two years.
(5) I embrace everyone and thank you!” Tsarnaeva, a Russian native who left the US for Dagestan in 2012 after failing to meet a shoplifting charge, has always vocally maintained her son’s innocence.
(6) He was high when he went to the Maison Blanche store, and he says that as a result he shoplifted “without thinking”.
(7) Some 40% of prisoners committed crimes to support their habit; 95% of street prostitution and 80% of shoplifting is due to addiction.
(8) The Association of British Insurers recently released research that showed how fake car crashes helped push the level of insurance fraud to a record £1.3bn in 2013, an 18% jump on the previous year and more than double the cost of the UK's shoplifting bill.
(9) This article presents a typology for differential assessment of and intervention with shoplifters.
(10) The data also shows an 8% rise in fraud and a 5% increase in shoplifting.
(11) In April, convicted defendants became liable for a flat rate, means-blind court fee that is the same for shoplifting as dangerous driving.
(12) Of the parents she supports who work (only around 16% of them are in work, or have worked), many have admitted they are shoplifting for food.
(13) Morris was under no illusion it would be easy, but he had unwavering hope and was wholly committed to ensuring his son would go on to live a clean and happy life after completing his 11-month sentence for shoplifting.
(14) For more than a decade shoplifting first offenses by people over the age of 60 have been increasing.
(15) The Dover Express , citing a former cellmate, reported that Dainus had earlier served a three-month sentence for shoplifting.
(16) We ascribe the shoplifting to impairment of social judgment, which was one of the observed features of a dementia.
(17) He gives an impeccably liberal answer about "your teenage son" being wrongly arrested for shoplifting – should he have his DNA kept on file?
(18) Ronald Washington, 48, is also serving life without parole in Angola, in his case for shoplifting two Michael Jordan jerseys from a Foot Action sportswear store in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 2004.
(19) You were caught shoplifting in Marks & Spencer in Islington… I was.
(20) It says, having prevented damaged teens from doing too much joy-riding and shoplifting, we're no longer overly concerned about what happens to them.