(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.
Shrinkage
Definition:
(n.) The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement.
(n.) The amount of such contraction; the bulk or dimension lost by shrinking, as of grain, castings, etc.
(n.) Decrease in value; depreciation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tumor shrinkage was documented by A-scan ultrasonography in all but one patient.
(2) Results suggest that these resins should be used with some method to compensate for the shrinkage, when used as index material.
(3) Since all human cadaveric tissue is fixed whilst on the skeleton, we may assume that shrinkage of the muscles in such specimens is negligible.
(4) Clofibrate and its analogs (halofenate and beta-benzalbutyrate) produced significant hepatomegaly (mean responses of +18, +18 and +10%, respectively) whereas oxandrolone produced significant hepatic shrinkage (-10%)(P less than .05).
(5) Hypertrophy of the satellite cells with increase in the perineuronal intercellular spaces, often associated with irregular, scalloped nuclear and cell outlines, suggested that neuron shrinkage had occurred.
(6) In Patient 2, rhinorrhoea and presumably entry of infection was facilitated by unplugging of a defect in the wall of the sphenoid sinus by bromocriptine-induced shrinkage of the pituitary adenoma.
(7) During negative equilibrium gas in the bubble gradually simulates tissue gas with eventual shrinkage of the bubble.
(8) Dehydration in ethanol and propylene oxide produces a further 10% shrinkage in volume.
(9) Angioscopy provided cross-sectional topographic views of thrombosed lumen and showed charring and shrinkage of thrombus following laser angioplasty.
(10) Marked net cation loss and cell shrinkage occurred in the absence of a chemical gradient for Na and K. This voltage-dependent increase in Na and K conductance is partially inhibited by 10 microM ruthenium red and persists when the membrane potential is returned to -10 mV after transient exposure to inside-positive potentials.
(11) Overall extensibility of the fixed material was significantly greater than that for the fresh tissue, consistent with a 10.7% shrinkage in aldehydes calculated from strain at fracture data.
(12) In vitro, NGF withdrawal from septal neurons initially grown in the presence of NGF did not result in the death of old cholinergic neurons in these tissue cultures but did result in a down-regulation of transmitter-associated enzymes, accompanied by cholinergic cell shrinkage and a reduction in fiber density.
(13) A chronic, progressive disease, CP is characterized by shrinkage of the conjunctiva, symblepharon, entropion, trichiasis, dry eye, and finally reduced vision from corneal opacification.
(14) There are no significant differences of shrinkage temperature and ultimate tensile stress among all tissue samples pretreated with GA, EP 1# and EP 2#.
(15) These data support the hypothesis of regional variations in the severity of cerebral cortical damage in alcoholism with shrinkage of neurons in most regions examined but neuronal loss only in the superior frontal gyrus.
(16) 40:820-823) showed that the shrinkage is due to a mechanochemical coupling between the elasticity of the network and the osmotic stress arising from preferential exclusion of PEG.
(17) After heat treatment, the test piece was examined for compressive strength, compressive shrinkage, hardness, tarnishing and difference in phase.
(18) This could be explained on the basis of a selective loss of larger neurones rather than a general shrinkage of all neurones.
(19) Comparisons with animals monocularly deprived for similar periods indicate, however, that in 3 of these animals the undeprived parvocellular cells would have been markedly hypertrophied at the time of reopening the deprived eye, and in two of the animals, little shrinkage of the deprived parvocellular cells would have occurred by this time.
(20) A significant correlation was observed between the shrinkage during the treatment period and the local control at 150 days, for three of the four fractionated schedules.