theft
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 5
Definition of theft
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)The act of stealing property.
“resource theft”
“Bike theft is on the rise.”
“A suspect was arrested for the theft of a gold necklace.”
“If you steal a candy bar, you are guilty of theft, regardless of the value. You can't fudge the theft by saying, "But it was only a candy bar," or "I didn't steal it from a person, but from a rich corporation," or "Everyone steals from the government."”
“That last problem did intrude on Hazzard’s roamings, and when she refers to the living city it is with periodic references to thefts of cars and wallets, with a warning not to carry anything “snatchable” by the thieves on motorcycles who whiz through the streets.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English theft, thefte, þefte, þefþe, þiefþe, Old English þīefþ, from Proto-West Germanic *þiubiþu, from Proto-Germanic *þiubiþō, from *þeubaz (“thief”), equivalent to thief or thieve + -t (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Old Frisian thiuvethe, thiufthe (“theft”), dialectal Dutch diefte (“theft”), obsolete German Diebde (“theft”), Icelandic þýfð (“theft”).
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