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shopliftings

shopliftings is the plural of shoplifting.

Meaning of shoplifting

Noun

shoplifting (countable and uncountable, plural shopliftings)

  1. (uncountable) The action of stealing goods from a shop, store or other place of business.
    • […]William Grove for robbing his Master of twenty-sive Guineas ; and Catharine Knox for Shoplifting.1724, The Chronological Diary For the Year 1724, page 45
    Synonyms:
    retail theft
  2. (countable) A theft from a shop during trading hours.
    • In high school, he bleached his hair and began a series of shopliftings and bicycle thefts.2000, Elmer H Johnson, Carol Johnson, Linking Community and Corrections in Japan, page 180
    Synonyms:
    shoplift

Questions about shopliftings

What is shopliftings the plural of?
Shopliftings is the plural of shoplifting.

Words near shopliftings in the dictionary

  1. shoplift
  2. shoplifted
  3. shoplifter
  4. shoplifters
  5. shoplifting
  6. shopliftings
  7. shoplifts
  8. shoplifty
  9. shoplight
  10. shoplights
  11. shoplike

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