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What is the noun for thieving?

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thief
  1. One who carries out a theft.
  2. (obsolete) A waster in the snuff of a candle.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The twist comes when Wilma's handbag gets switched with that of a jewel thief.”
      “There he meets up with the wily Artful Dodger who takes him to thief and fence Fagin, who is in charge of a gang of young pickpockets.”
      “The detectives were acting on a tip-off from a thief who had broken into Mr Morrison's house only days earlier.”
thiefdom
  1. (rare) The fact or practice of thieving; theft.
  2. A place inhabited by thieves, or where thieves are in charge.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The thiefdom that plagued the nation led to rampant corruption, as the ruling elite shamelessly pilfered and squandered the country's valuable resources.”
thievery
  1. The act of theft, the act of stealing.
  2. (obsolete) That which is stolen.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The posters now need tamper-proof perspex frames fixed to walls with special screws to prevent the thievery.”
      “It continues to operate in the region today, even though cattle rustling and other forms of thievery rarely occur.”
      “Antonomasia is, then, a kind of theft, but one that reveals the thievery involved in the original act of naming.”
theftboot
  1. (historical) The crime of protecting a thief from the law in exchange for stolen goods.
thiefship
  1. (often as an address) The office, rank, or title of a thief; thiefhood; thiefdom
thiefhood
  1. The state, quality, or condition of a thief; thiefdom
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Genet's authenticity is the way he throws back at the world the very thiefhood it would have him accept. The world's thiefhood is ready made; there are crimes and there are laws and jails.”
thiefness
  1. (rare) The state or conduct of a thief; thievery
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thievishness
  1. The quality of being thievish.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He is remarkable for his thievishness and his destructiveness toward small animals.”
      “He may be exuberant or even excessive, and this may cause some excitement, but we see nothing of scandal, vice, thievishness or anything of that kind in this card.”
      “For the same reason the breed has a tendency to thievishness, even though they really are very teachable and very well know what is right and wrong.”
theft
  1. The act of stealing property.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The security laws ban treason, sedition, subversion, and the theft of state secrets.”
      “Floyd later had some run-ins with the law and spent a few years behind bars for criminal trespass, possession of a controlled substance, home invasion, and theft.”
      “These people actually dared to openly commit theft in broad daylight.”
thieving
thiever
  1. Rare form of thief.
thievings
thiefdoms
thieveries
thievers
  1. plural of thiever
thefts
  1. plural of theft
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In Nigeria, federal authorities are clamping down on a rash of crude oil thefts.”
      “There appears to be little hope that the rash of screener thefts from checked luggage will abate anytime soon.”
      “Can an extreme couponing craze be behind this recent rise in newspaper thefts?”
thiefs
  1. (proscribed, nonstandard) plural of thief
  2. Examples:
    1. “I grieve for Wyndham thinking cusack and the little Welchers to be the thiefs.”
thieves
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