pilferage
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pilferage (countable and uncountable, plural pilferages)
- The individual act or recurring practice of stealing items of low value, especially in small quantities, for which the legal term is petty theft.
- 1942 May-June, “Theft on the Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 130:
- Sir Thomas Royden, Chairman of the L.M.S.R., and Mr. Robert Holland-Martin, Chairman of the Southern Railway, both deplored the wholesale robbery and petty pilferage which have increased until they have reached appalling dimensions.
- 1981, John Updike, Rabbit is Rich:
- Still, there is pilferage, mysterious discrepancies eating into the percentages.
Translations[edit]
theft
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