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thieftaker

thieftaker is the alternative form of thief-taker.

Meaning of thief-taker

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 thieftaker

pluralthieftakers

Questions about thieftaker

What is thieftaker the alternative form of?
Thieftaker is the alternative form of thief-taker.

Words near thieftaker in the dictionary

  1. thiefly
  2. thiefness
  3. thiefproof
  4. thiefs
  5. thiefship
  6. thieftaker
  7. thieftakers
  8. thiefwise
  9. thiefy
  10. Thiel
  11. Thielaviopsis root rot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thieftaker (page history and authors); thief-taker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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