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  • 51thievery — n 1. stealing, pilferage, pilfering, filching, purloinging, theft, thieving, Inf. snitching, Law. larceny, Sl. swiping, Sl. copping; shoplifting, palming, Sl. boosting; purse snatching. 2. peculation, embezzlement, misappropriation; swindling,… …

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  • 52filch — UK [fɪltʃ] / US verb [transitive] Word forms filch : present tense I/you/we/they filch he/she/it filches present participle filching past tense filched past participle filched informal to steal something …

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  • 53burglary — [n] stealing from residence, business break in, breaking and entering, caper, crime, filching, heist, housebreaking, larceny, owl job*, pilferage, prowl, robbery, safecracking, second story work*, sting, theft, thieving; concept 139 …

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  • 54embezzlement — [n] stealing money, often from employer abstraction, appropriation, defalcation, filching, fraud, larceny, misapplication, misappropriation, misuse, peculation, pilfer age, pilfering, purloining, skimming, theft, thieving; concept 139 Ant.… …

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  • 55pilferage — Larceny or stealing, particularly stealing something of small value. Anno: 48 ALR2d 20. Filching or taking a small part only, rather than the whole. 32 Am J1st Larc § 2. Ruin by depredation. Anno: 38 ALR 1125 …

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  • 56violence — Physical force applied so as to injure or damage. Alexander v State, 40 Tex Crim 395, 411, 49 SW 229, 50 SW 716. The snatching or jerking the property of another from his person, where such property is so attached to his person or clothing as to… …

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  • 57honesty is the best policy — 1605 E. SANDYS Europx Speculum K3 This over politick..order may reach a note higher than our grosse conceipts, who think honestie the best policie. a 1763 J. BYROM Poems (1773) I. 75 I’ll filch no filching; and I’ll tell no lye; / Honesty’s the… …

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  • 58prog — I. ˈpräg noun ( s) Etymology: origin unknown dialect Britain : a pointed instrument (as a goad or skewer) II. transitive verb (progged ; progged ; pr …

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