shoplifting

See also: shop-lifting

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, shoplift +‎ -ing. The noun sense (from 1690) predates the verb.

Noun

shoplifting (countable and uncountable, plural shopliftings)

1. (uncountable) The action of stealing goods from a shop; the action of the verb shoplift.

   He pleaded guilty to shoplifting.

   • 1724, The Chronological Diary For the Year 1724, page 45:

     […] William Grove for robbing his Master of twenty-sive Guineas ; and Catharine Knox for Shoplifting.

   • 1757 December 22, The London Chronicle, Volume II: June 30 - December 31, page 594,

     Yesterday Afternoon a Woman well dreſs'd, was detected at Mr. Flint′s, a Haberdasher on London-Bridge, in Shoplifting, and on examining her, there were found on her ſome Goods belonging to Mr. Kennet, a Haberdasher at the ſame Place.

   • 2006, Gennaro F. Vito, Jeffrey R. Maahs, Ronald M. Holmes, Criminology: Theory, Research, And Policy, page 337:

     Shoplifting is one of the most prevalent crimes and it costs retailers millions of dollars each year.

   • 2007, Paul W. Browning, The Good Guys Wear Blue, page 193:

     On my first day on the watch after leaving the shoplifting squad I paraded on earlies but had completely forgotten to take my ear ring off.

2. (countable) A theft from a shop during trading hours.
   • 2000, Elmer H Johnson, Carol Johnson, Linking Community and Corrections in Japan, page 180:

     In high school, he bleached his hair and began a series of shopliftings and bicycle thefts.

   • 2004, “An American”, in Arlington′s Blood, iUniverse, page 82:

     And we hardly even consider the countless robberies, shopliftings, burglaries, carjackings, kidnappings, stalkings, intimidations and harassments.

   • 2012, Lawrence Fennelly, Handbook of Loss Prevention and Crime Prevention, 5th edition, page 171:

     When we described the 80-20 rule, we mentioned that 5% of the stores in Danvers, Massachusetts, accounted for 50% of the reported shopliftings.

Translations

action of the verb to shoplift

• Arabic: سَرَقَةُ السِلَعَ مِنَ الـمَتَاجِر (saraqatu s-silaʕa mina l-matājir)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 商店行竊 / 商店行窃 (shāngdiàn xíngqiè), 入店行竊 / 入店行窃 (rùdiàn xíngqiè), 店鋪盜竊 / 店铺盗窃 (diànpù dàoqiè), 商店偷竊 / 商店偷窃 (shāngdiàn tōuqiè)

• Danish: butikstyveri
• Dutch: winkeldiefstal (nl) m
• Finnish: näpistys (fi), myymälävarkaus (fi)
• French: vol à l’étalage (fr) m
• German: Ladendiebstahl (de) m
• Irish: gadaíocht siopa f, bradaíocht siopa
• Italian: taccheggio (it) m
• Japanese: 万引き (ja) (まんびき, manbiki), 万引 (ja) (まんびき, manbiki)
• Korean: 들치기 (deulchigi)
• Norwegian: butikktyveri
• Polish: kradzież w sklepie f
• Portuguese: furto em lojas
• Russian: магази́нная кра́жа f (magazínnaja kráža), шопли́фтинг m (šoplífting)
• Spanish: hurto (es) m, ratería f
• Swedish: snatteri (sv) n
• Welsh: dwyn o siopau

theft from a shop

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 店內盜竊 / 店内盗窃 (diànnèi dàoqiè)

• Finnish: myymälävarkaus (fi)
• German: Ladendiebstahl (de) m
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: hurto (es) m, ratería f
• Turkish: kaldırımcılık (tr) (slang)

Verb

shoplifting

1. present participle and gerund of shoplift