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B2thecrimeofillegallyenteringabuildingandstealingthings 入室盗窃(罪) - Several men werequestionedbypoliceyesterdayabout the burglary.
- Simpson,aged19, wasconvictedon twochargesof burglary.
- Thelatestcrimefiguresshow asharprisein burglaries.
- Policeareinvestigatingaspateof burglaries in the Kingsland Roadarea.
- Manypeoplein theneighbourhoodhave beenvictimsof burglary at leastonce.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesStealing - abscond
- aggravated burglary
- anti-burglar
- anti-burglary
- anti-piracy
- housebreaking
- jemmy
- jimmy
- job
- joyride
- kleptomania
- piratical
- plunder
- poach
- poaching
- purloin
- rustle
- rustling
- snaffle
- snitch
See more results » (Definition ofburglaryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)- Every considerable dwelling in this neighbourhood has been entered, and I have no doubt you are the men who committed all the burglaries.
- If they are prevented working for six weeks, it might lead them to procure support for their wives and children by burglary, larceny or highway robbery.
- In law if the word burglary is used in the indictment, the defense, in order to quash the charge, need show merely that a door was unlocked.
- Robbery and burglary are generally counted as crimes of violence, but they should be properly classed under property crimes.
- Where is the document you took from my uncle's desk on the night of the burglary?
burglary| American Dictionarythecrimeofillegallyenteringabuildingandstealingthings: [C]Hecommittedmore than adozenburglaries in the lastyear. (Definition ofburglaryfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)burglary| Business EnglishLAWthecrimeofillegallyenteringabuildingandstealingthings: Themaximumjailsentenceforaggravatedburglaryis 14years. Insurers are gettingtougheroncustomerswho makeclaimsafter burglaries. (Definition ofburglaryfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofburglaryburglary Poverty may have seemed a safer alternative to wealth andburglary.From theCambridge English Corpus Examples of aggravated larceny included highway robbery,burglary, attacks by footpads and piracy.From theCambridge English Corpus Note that the frequency of three words placed them in the high-frequency group (burglary, specific, stethoscope).From theCambridge English Corpus The figures showburglaryrising at the end of the war, but generally remaining below the pre-war level.From theCambridge English Corpus However, most car crime, and some domesticburglary, is opportunistic.From theCambridge English Corpus By contrast, the contemporary local community was commonly associated with stories of isolation, vandalism,burglaryand harassment.From theCambridge English Corpus The tenants also suffered from a mysteriousburglarywhere nothing was taken but a terrible mess was made.From theCambridge English Corpus While for automobile,burglaryand fire insurance these consequences appear to be 'socially acceptable', for health insurance this is not the case.From theCambridge English Corpus Even more than in other parts of the country, property offences predominated, particularly petty theft, but also violent offences such asburglaryand robbery.From theCambridge English Corpus Theburglarywas not too difficult as the guards were regularly asleep in the early hours of the morning.From theCambridge English Corpus Data about offenders, victims and the situation are analysed to predict the risk of burglaries and to predict the features of burglars in the form of offender profiles.From theCambridge English Corpus They said they felt threatened byburglaryand by attack in the street after dark and had security systems installed subsequent to the deaths of their partners.From theCambridge English Corpus In contrast, teens who prefer more covert ways of acting out lie, shoplift, vandalize, cut school, and progress to fraud, theft,burglary, and more serious crimes.From theCambridge English Corpus The window and the door were both bolted which was the usual practice apparently to preventburglaryand 'the air was quite foul'.From theCambridge English Corpus The owner of an apple stall lost a linen smock and linen shirt, a silk handkerchief and a half yard of lace in theburglaryof her family home.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/burglary## |