Shoplifting vs Shoplift - What's the difference?
shoplifting | shoplift | Derived terms |
(uncountable) The action of stealing goods from a shop; the action of the verb shoplift.
* 1724 , The Chronological Diary For the Year 1724 ,
* 1757 December 22, The London Chronicle , Volume II: June 30 - December 31,
* 2006 , Gennaro F. Vito, Jeffrey R. Maahs, Ronald M. Holmes, Criminology: Theory, Research, And Policy ,
(countable) A theft from a shop during trading hours.
* 2000 , Elmer H Johnson, Carol Johnson, Linking Community and Corrections in Japan ,
* 2004 , “An American”, Arlington?s Blood , iUniverse,
* 2012 , Lawrence Fennelly, Handbook of Loss Prevention and Crime Prevention , 5th Edition,
(obsolete) A shoplifter.
* 1704 , John Dunton, The Athenian Oracle , Athenian Society, Volume III,
To steal something from a shop / store during trading hours.
* 2004 May 17, Andrew Sean Greer, The New Yorker ,
To steal from shops / stores during trading hours.
* 1938 April, William Peery, Thank Rotary!'', ''The Rotarian ,
* 1969 October, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Mechanisms for Exploiting the Black Community'', '' ,
* 2002 November 25, The New Yorker ,
Shoplifting is a derived term of shoplift.
As nouns the difference between shoplifting and shoplift
is that shoplifting is (uncountable) the action of stealing goods from a shop; the action of the verb shoplift while shoplift is (obsolete) a shoplifter.As verbs the difference between shoplifting and shoplift
is that shoplifting is (shoplift) while shoplift is to steal something from a shop / store during trading hours.shoplifting
English
(wikipedia shoplifting)Noun
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- William Grove'' for robbing his Master of twenty-sive Guineas ; and ''Catharine Knox for Shoplifting .
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- 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.
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- Shoplifting is one of the most prevalent crimes and it costs retailers millions of dollars each year.
page 180,
- In high school, he bleached his hair and began a series of shopliftings and bicycle thefts.
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- And we hardly even consider the countless robberies, shopliftings , burglaries, carjackings, kidnappings, stalkings, intimidations and harassments.
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- 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)shoplift
English
(shoplifting)Noun
(en noun)page 67,
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Verb
(en verb)- She taught Maddy to sing in Portuguese, to shoplift mascara, to play a drinking game called Spoons
page 52,
- Once, before we had juvenile court here, I made the mistake of putting on probation a boy who had shoplifted , a boy of good family. That boy later shot a man.
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- Thus, the teacher shook down the kids, the big kids shook down the little kids, the little kids shoplifted to get money, etc''., ''etc .
- In other words, New York is a better place to shoplift .
