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Larceny

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The unlawful taking and removing of another's personal property with the intent of permanently depriving the owner; theft.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently.

n. A larcenous act attributable to an individual.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. embezzlement.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In law, the wrongful or fraudulent taking and carrying away, by any person and from any place, of the mere personal goods of another, with a felonious intent to convert them to the taker's own use, and make them his own property, without the consent of the owner; theft. East.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the act of taking something from someone unlawfully

Word Usage

"For example, an officer who wanted to hide a grand larceny, which is counted as an index crime and as such would affect the city's crime rate, could classify the crime as a petite larceny, a statistic that is not counted as part of the official crime rate."

Equivalent

petit larceny are compound larceny

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

felony

Cross Reference

compound larceny grand larceny simple larceny petty larceny

Variant

embezzlement

Hyponym

peculation misapplication shrinkage grand theft petty larceny

Form

grand larceny petty larceny

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

thef

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

arson manslaughter shoplifting racketeering felony