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housebreaking
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun housebreaking has 1 sense
- housebreaking(n = noun.act) break-in, breaking and entering - trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent; Array is a kind of burglary
has particulars: home invasion
OXFORD DICTIONARY
housebreaking, n. the act of breaking into a building, esp. in daytime, to commit a crime.
Usage
In 1968 replaced as a statutory crime in English law by burglary.
ROGET THESAURUS
housebreaking
Stealing
N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.
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