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thief-taker

thief-taker noun: someone whose job it is to find and capture thieves.

Noun

thief-taker (plural thief-takers)

  1. (historical) Someone whose job it is to find and capture thieves.
    • In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 63

Forms of thief-taker

pluralthief-takers

Questions about thief-taker

What does thief-taker mean?
Thief-taker means someone whose job it is to find and capture thieves.
What part of speech is thief-taker?
Thief-taker is a noun.
What is the plural of thief-taker?
The plural of thief-taker is thief-takers.

Words near thief-taker in the dictionary

  1. thief knots
  2. thief palm
  3. Thief River Falls
  4. thief tube
  5. thief tubes
  6. thief-taker
  7. thief-takers
  8. thiefcraft
  9. thiefdom
  10. thiefdoms
  11. thiefed

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