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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the act of taking something from someone unlawfully;
- Example: "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International"
[syn: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Theft \Theft\ (th[e^]ft), n. [OE. thefte, AS. [thorn]i['e]f[eth]e, [thorn][=y]f[eth]e, [thorn]e['o]f[eth]e. See Thief.] 1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny. [1913 Webster] Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious; every part of the property stolen must be removed, however slightly, from its former position; and it must be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of the thief. See Larceny, and the Note under Robbery. [1913 Webster] 2. The thing stolen. [R.] [1913 Webster] If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, . . . he shall restore double. --Ex. xxii. 4. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

theft n 1: the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International" [syn: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

39 Moby Thesaurus words for "theft": acquisition, appropriation, boosting, burglary, caper, claiming, embezzlement, filch, filching, grab, heist, hijacking, job, larceny, lift, lifting, pilferage, pilfering, pinch, pinching, possession, purloining, reception, rip-off, robbery, robbing, score, shoplifting, snitching, steal, stealage, stealing, swiping, taking, taking away, taking possession, thievery, thieving, touch
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:

Theft Punished by restitution, the proportions of which are noted in 2 Sam. 12:6. If the thief could not pay the fine, he was to be sold to a Hebrew master till he could pay (Ex. 22:1-4). A night-thief might be smitten till he died, and there would be no blood-guiltiness for him (22:2). A man-stealer was to be put to death (21:16). All theft is forbidden (Ex. 20:15; 21:16; Lev. 19:11; Deut. 5:19; 24:7; Ps. 50:18; Zech. 5:3; Matt. 19:18; Rom. 13:9; Eph. 4:28; 1 Pet. 4:15).
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

THEFT, crimes. This word is sometimes used as synonymous with larceny, (q.v.) but it is not so technical. Ayliffe's Pand. 581 2 Swift's Dig. 309. 2. In the Scotch law, this is a proper and technical word, and signifies the secret and felonious abstraction of the property of another for sake of lucre, without his consent. Alison, Princ. Cr. Law of Scotl. 250.