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shoplifting

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11 lettersPart of speech nounSorted fghiilnopstStarts with SEnds with G0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store

Word origin

By surface analysis, shoplift + -ing. The noun sense (from 1690) predates the verb.

Used in a sentence

  • […]William Grove for robbing his Master of twenty-sive Guineas ; and Catharine Knox for Shoplifting.
  • Shoplifting is one of the most prevalent crimes and it costs retailers millions of dollars each year.
  • On my first day on the watch after leaving the shoplifting squad I paraded on earlies but had completely forgotten to take my ear ring off.

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