Associations to the word «Theft»

Wiktionary

THEFT, noun. The act of stealing property.
THEFT BY FINDING, noun. (legal) The crime of failing to take reasonable steps to find the owner of property that has been found.

Dictionary definition

THEFT, noun. The act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope