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theftnoun the unlawful taking and carrying away of property without the consent of its ownerwhile violent crime in the city has decreased dramatically, rates of theft and vandalism have risen slightly larceny, robbery, stealing, thievery burglary, housebreakingembezzlement, embezzling, graft, misapplication, misappropriation, peculationpetit larceny, petty larcenyfilching, pilferage, pilfering, purloining, shopliftingabduction, carjacking, hijacking(also highjacking), kidnapping(also kidnaping), shanghaiingdespoilment, despoliation, looting, pillage, plundering, rapine, spoliationpoaching, rustlingblack marketeering, smugglingbanditry, piracy an instance of theftthe police found the stolen car an hour after the theft was reported before the 12th century |