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Larceny Worth Stealing Property Lɑːrsəni N.盗窃;盗窃罪 Wanted Accused

Front larceny
Pron ['lɑːrsəni]
Back 【larceny】
n.盗窃;盗窃罪
He wanted to be accused of larceny, because he felt comfortable in prison.
他欲以盗窃罪被起诉,因监狱令他觉得舒适。
Vocab
larcenythe act of taking something from someone unlawfully

Larceny is the legal term for stealing. Grand larceny is when you take something worth a lot of money, petty larceny when the stolen item is worth relatively little.

Larceny is used when talking about stealing someone's property in regards to the law. If you illegally download music or plagiarize a text, that may be theft, but it is not larceny because there was no physical property involved. If you take a friend's yoyo and don't give it back, it's stealing — unless your friend calls the police and has you arrested on charges of larceny.

All forms of 'larceny' will appear on average once every 5459 pages.
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