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larceny
[ lahr-suh-nee ]
noun
- the wrongful taking of someone's property or goods, removing them from their owner's posession with intent to convert them to the taker's own use.
larceny
/ ˈɑːɪɪ /
noun
- law (formerly) a technical word for theft
larceny
- Theft; taking another person's property with the intent of permanently depriving the owner.
Derived Forms
- ˈԾ, noun
- ˈԴdzܲ, adverb
- ˈԴdzܲ, adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of larceny1
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Example Sentences
The bill would require immigration agents to take into custody people who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting.
Studies by the Public Policy Institute of California have questioned whether Proposition 47 is to blame for increases in crimes such as larceny and commercial burglary, also pointing to low solve rates by police.
It was lunacy, attempted larceny, an attack on democracy.
One critic noted that "when Maggie Smith is on the screen, the picture moves," and Burton afterwards teasingly described her upstaging of him as "grand larceny."
Routh pleaded guilty to felony larceny in the late 1990s and faced a felony charge in 2010 for possessing stolen goods, according to court records reviewed by The Times.
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