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Shoplifting vs Robbing - What's the difference?

shoplifting | robbing |

As nouns the difference between shoplifting and robbing

is that shoplifting is (uncountable) the action of stealing goods from a shop; the action of the verb shoplift while robbing is robbery.

As verbs the difference between shoplifting and robbing

is that shoplifting is while robbing is .

shoplifting

Noun

  • (uncountable) The action of stealing goods from a shop; the action of the verb shoplift.
  • * 1724 , The Chronological Diary For the Year 1724 , page 45,
  • William Grove'' for robbing his Master of twenty-sive Guineas ; and ''Catharine Knox for Shoplifting .
  • * 1757 December 22, The London Chronicle , Volume II: June 30 - December 31, page 594,
  • Yesterday Afternoon a Woman well dre?s'd, was detected at Mr. Flint?s, a Haberdasher on London-Bridge, in Shoplifting , and on examining her, there were found on her ?ome Goods belonging to Mr. Kennet, a Haberdasher at the ?ame Place.
  • * 2006 , Gennaro F. Vito, Jeffrey R. Maahs, Ronald M. Holmes, Criminology: Theory, Research, And Policy , page 337,
  • Shoplifting is one of the most prevalent crimes and it costs retailers millions of dollars each year.
  • (countable) A theft from a shop during trading hours.
  • * 2000 , Elmer H Johnson, Carol Johnson, Linking Community and Corrections in Japan , page 180,
  • In high school, he bleached his hair and began a series of shopliftings and bicycle thefts.
  • * 2004 , “An American”, Arlington?s Blood , iUniverse, page 82,
  • And we hardly even consider the countless robberies, shopliftings , burglaries, carjackings, kidnappings, stalkings, intimidations and harassments.
  • * 2012 , Lawrence Fennelly, Handbook of Loss Prevention and Crime Prevention , 5th Edition, page 171,
  • When we described the 80-20 rule, we mentioned that 5% of the stores in Danvers, Massachusetts, accounted for 50% of the reported shopliftings .

    Verb

    (head)
  • robbing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • robbery
  • * 1985 , David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World (page 141)
  • Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.