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Antonyms for shoplifting

Grammar : Verb
Spell : shop-lift
Phonetic Transcription : ˈʃɒpˌlɪft


Definition of shoplifting

Origin :
  • 1690s, "stealing of goods from a shop;" see shoplifter.
  • verb steal
Example sentences :
  • One of his detectives arrested her on a charge of shoplifting.
  • Extract from : « The Third Degree » by Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow
  • He wanted me to talk the gang into shoplifting, but I wouldn't.
  • Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Richard Maples
  • "It's a wonder you weren't arrested for shoplifting," said Mr. Brief.
  • Extract from : « Half-Hours with the Idiot » by John Kendrick Bangs
  • In the same place with himself and another man mere was a woman very genteelly dressed, who had been committed for shoplifting.
  • Extract from : « Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences » by Arthur L. Hayward
  • It was old Dr. Blair, from Carmody, and he was looking at me as if he had found me shoplifting.
  • Extract from : « Chronicles of Avonlea » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • The practice of shoplifting among ladies has increased lately to a fearful degree.
  • Extract from : « The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 » by George W. M. Reynolds
  • These lessons were in shoplifting, pocket picking, purse snatching and other forms of larceny requiring skill and deftness.
  • Extract from : « Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World » by Clifton R. Wooldridge
  • On a charge of shoplifting she was given an indeterminate sentence of one to ten years in the penitentiary at Joliet.
  • Extract from : « Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World » by Clifton R. Wooldridge
  • The hardest bout I ever had was with a woman—Sally Wells, who was afterwards lagged for shoplifting.
  • Extract from : « Jack Sheppard, Vol. I (of III) » by W. Harrison Ainsworth

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