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Larceny vs Freebooting - What's the difference?

larceny | freebooting | Related terms |

Larceny is a related term of freebooting.


As nouns the difference between larceny and freebooting

is that larceny is (legal) the unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently while freebooting is piracy or plundering.

As an adjective freebooting is

engaged in piracy or plunder.

As a verb freebooting is

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larceny

English

Noun

  • (legal) The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently.
  • (legal) A larcenous act attributable to an individual.
    • That young man already has four assaults, a DUI, and a larceny on his record.

    Derived terms

    * grand larceny * petty larceny

    References

    freebooting

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Piracy or plundering
  • * {{quote-book, year=1853, author=James Richardson, title=Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The Haghar are well known, even in Europe, for their freebooting propensities. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1900, author=Josephine Elizabeth Butler, title=Native Races and the War, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Why do you now refuse to protect your own highway into the Interior,
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Howard Pyle, title=Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In a short time freebooting assumed all of the routine of a regular business. }}
  • The unauthorized rehosting of online media

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Engaged in piracy or plunder
  • * {{quote-book, year=1843, author=Ralph Waldo Emerson, title=The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In one respect, as I hinted above, it is only too good, so sure of success, I mean, that you are no longer secure of any respect to your property in our freebooting America. }}

    Verb

    (head)