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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne