shoplifting
IPA: ʃˈɑpɫɪftɪŋ
noun
- (uncountable) The action of stealing goods from a shop; the action of the verb shoplift.
- (countable) A theft from a shop during trading hours.
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Examples of "shoplifting" in Sentences
- After all, a charge of shoplifting is very concrete.
- Meanwhile, how about some lessons in shoplifting from some petty thieves.
- There are many benefits to being Anglican; Christmas shoplifting is just one of them.
- 'The regard that shoplifting is the most appropriate choice that the small people have been left with is the grim indictment of who you are.
- A North Yorkshire Police orator said: 'First as well as foremost, shoplifting is the rapist corruption as well as to justify this march of action under any circumstances is rarely irresponsible.
- The paper challenges the conventional wisdom that the observed rise in shoplifting calls for intensified monitoring and higher prices, showing that a rational response to increased shoplifting involves a reduction in both monitoring and prices.
- But let me add that by your reasoning, the fact that almost everyone thinks that shoplifting should be a crime, whereas almost everyone thinks that discrimination should be punished as a less serious civil matter, means that almost everyone thinks that shoplifting is more serious than discrimination, which by your lights means that everyone is a racist.
- David Bernstein: But let me add that by your reasoning, the fact that almost everyone thinks that shoplifting should be a crime, whereas almost everyone thinks that discrimination should be punished as a less serious civil matter, means that almost everyone thinks that shoplifting is more serious than discrimination, which by your lights means that everyone is a racist.
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