vehicle theft

collocation in English

meaningsofvehicleandtheft

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vehicle
noun
uk
/ˈvɪə.kəl/us
/ˈviː.ə.kəl/
formal
a machine, usually with wheels and an engine, used for transporting people or goods, especially ...
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theft
noun[C or U]
uk
/θeft/us
/θeft/
(the act of) dishonestly taking something that belongs to someone else and ...
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(Definition ofvehicleandtheftfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Property offenses included 20 items such as vandalism, breaking and entering, motorvehicletheft, embezzlement from work, shoplifting, several other kinds of thefts, and several kinds of frauds.
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Violent crime is down, and so is burglary andvehicletheft.
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It is not a panacea nor the answer tovehicletheftand vehicle crime.
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Crime has been high, with bad street crime andvehicletheft.
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If we are to reduce the problems ofvehicletheft, we need to strengthen the law in this area.
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To grant the suggested exemption would deny the protection againstvehicletheftthat this scheme brings to other motorists.
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The recorded figures show that there were more than 80,000 fewer instances ofvehicletheftover the past two years.
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Clear majorities of people arrested in the offence groups of robbery, burglary and going equipped and motorvehicletheftwere 20 years or under.
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It is in the third quartile for robbery, but remains in the bottom quartile for burglary andvehicletheft.
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Police statistics onvehicletheftdo not distinguish between cars and other vehicles.
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Those measures are making a difference, and they will continue to make a difference in reducing the rate ofvehicletheft.
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Thevehicletheftmeasures will help the police to achieve the challenging target set for them of a 30 per cent reduction in crime by 2004.
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However, the recording of thefts from vehicles is much lower than that forvehicletheft, not least because the items stolen are sometimes below the excess on the insurance.
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We must see such crime in the wider sense of crime prevention, and not just in terms of preventingvehicletheft.
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Vehicletheftis costing our economy a fortune.
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Given the value of our vehicles, it is ironic that muchvehicletheftcomes about as a result of carelessness.
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If the police were aware that employees of a company had a record forvehicletheft, the local authority would then be able to take that into account.
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A major aspect of vehicle crime is the theft of parts, which is estimated to cost our economy five times as much asvehicletheft.
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Sincevehicletheftis one of the foremost crimes to affect citizens directly, our working together to reduce it will have an immeasurable impact on their security.
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