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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun thievery has 1 sense

• thievery(n = noun.act) larceny, stealing, theft, thieving - the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International"
has particulars: breach of trust with fraudulent intent, defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation, pilferage, shoplifting, shrinkage, robbery, biopiracy, grand larceny, grand theft, petit larceny, petty, petty larceny, skimming, rustling
is a kind of felony
Derived form verb thieve₁

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THESAURUS

thievery

abstraction, annexation, appropriation, boosting, conversion, conveyance, embezzlement, filching, fraud, graft, larceny, liberation, lift, lifting, pilferage, pilfering, pinch, pinching, poaching, purloining, scrounging, shoplifting, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, steal, stealage, stealing, swindle, swiping, theft, thieving, touch

ROGET THESAURUS

thievery

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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