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" Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
Howard Aiken

Meaning of "stealing" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF STEALING

ˈstiːlɪŋ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STEALING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Stealing is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES STEALING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Theft

In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it. The word is also used as an informal shorthand term for some crimes against property, such as burglary, embezzlement, larceny, looting, robbery, shoplifting, library theft and fraud. In some jurisdictions, theft is considered to be synonymous with larceny; in others, theft has replaced larceny. Someone who carries out an act of or makes a career of theft is known as a thief. The act of theft is known by terms such as stealing, thieving, wicksing, and filching. Theft is the name of a statutory offence in California, Canada, England and Wales, Hong Kong, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Victoria.

Definition of stealing in the English dictionary

The definition of stealing in the dictionary is thieving.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STEALING

appealing · ceiling · Darjeeling · Darjiling · dealing · Ealing · feeling · freewheeling · healing · ill-feeling · kneeling · peeling · revealing · sealing · sheiling · shieling · unappealing · unfeeling · unrevealing · wheeling

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STEALING

steakhouse · steal · steal a march on · steal someone´s thunder · steal the show · stealable · stealage · steale · stealer · stealingly · stealth · Stealth bomber · Stealth plane · stealth tax · stealthful · stealthier · stealthiest · stealthily · stealthiness · stealthy

WORDS THAT END LIKE STEALING

calling · crystal healing · death-dealing · direct distance dialing · double-dealing · faith healing · insider dealing · mental healing · paling · rosemaling · self-annealing · self-healing · self-sealing · signaling · spiritual healing · unconcealing · unhealing · whaling · wheeling and dealing · wholesaling · yealing

Synonyms and antonyms of stealing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «STEALING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «stealing» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «stealing» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF STEALING

Find out the translation of stealing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of stealing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stealing» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

robar
570 millions of speakers
en

English

stealing
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

चोरी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سرقة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

краже
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

roubar
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

চুরি
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

vol
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Mencuri
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Diebstahl
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

盗む
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

도둑질
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Nyolong
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ăn cắp
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

திருடி
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

चोरी करणे
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

çalma
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

furto
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

kradzież
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

крадіжці
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

furt
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κλοπή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

steel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stjäla
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stjele
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stealing

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STEALING»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of stealing
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «stealing».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about stealing

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «STEALING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word stealing.
1
Frank Abagnale
I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours.
2
Howard Aiken
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
3
Ian Anderson
A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
4
Michael Apted
Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.
5
Dan Ariely
Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
6
Kevin Barry
In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.'
7
Paul Bremer
Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.
8
Lou Brock
Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give me a handbook on how to do it; they said do it. Under those conditions you go out and develop your own handbook.
9
Frank Carson
I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.
10
Vincent Cassel
People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STEALING»

Discover the use of stealing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stealing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Cheating Death, Stealing Life: The Eddie Guerrero Story
One of the most inspiring stories in wrestling history, Cheating Death, Stealing Life sees Eddie Guerrero recount his saga in remarkably candid fashion, chronicling a life of heartbreaks and painful personal struggles in frank, graphic ...
Eddie Guerrero, 2010
2
Stealing Buddha's Dinner
Vivid and viscerally powerful, this remarkable memoir about growing up in the 1980s introduces an original new literary voice and an entirely new spin on the classic assimilation story.
Bich Minh Nguyen, 2008
3
Stealing Fire from the Gods: The Complete Guide to Story for ...
A revised and expanded sequel to Stealing Fire from the Gods, this 2nd edition includes important new revelations concerning the ultimate source of unity, the structures of the whole story passage, the anti-hero's journey, the high-concept ...
James Bonnet, 2006
4
Stealing Obedience: Narratives of Agency and Identity in ...
Explores how a Christian notion of freedom incurring responsibility was a component of identity, examining secular writings, liturgy, canon and civil law, chronicle, dialogue, and hagiography to analyze the practice of obedience in the ...
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, 2012
5
Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies
Anyone who ever toiled in the office "environment" will identify with the ironclad axioms put forth by Dogbert in this collection of office wisdom.
‎1991
6
Stealing Air
You can't just ask for the chance to fly .
Trent Reedy, 2012
7
Stealing Candy
Stealing Candy by Allison Hobbs is a shocking novel about human sex trafficking.
Allison Hobbs, 2010
8
Steal This Book
Meant as a practical guide for the aspiring hippie, Steal This Book captures Hoffman's puckish tone and became a cult classic with over 200,000 copies sold.
Abbie Hoffman, Izak Haber, Bert Cohen, 2002
9
Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works, Third Edition
Explains what type is, demonstrates how to select it, and examines its use in printed communication.
Erik Spiekermann, 2013
10
Stealing Into Print: Fraud, Plagiarism, and Misconduct in ...
Provocative and learned, Stealing Into Print is certain to become the authoritative work on scientific fraud, invaluable to the scientific community, policy makers, and the general public.
Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STEALING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stealing is used in the context of the following news items.
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Man Charged With Stealing Hearse During Funeral
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A 28-year-old man has been charged with stealing a hearse from outside a Buffalo church while a funeral was underway. Joe Brown of ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
2
Israeli man gets 14 months for stealing Madonna's songs
FILE - This Feb. 8, 2015 file photo shows Madonna performing at the 57th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Adi Lederman was sentenced Thursday to 14 ... «U.S. News & World Report, Jul 15»
3
Maine woman pleads guilty to stealing wreaths from cemetery
ALFRED, Maine (AP) — A Maine woman has pleaded guilty to stealing Christmas wreaths and arrangements from grave sites in a Saco cemetery to decorate ... «U.S. News & World Report, Jun 15»
4
Poland: British Teenagers Are Charged With Stealing From …
Two British teenagers have been charged with stealing items from the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps, the spokeswoman for prosecutors in Krakow, ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
5
Mississauga man first foreign hacker convicted for stealing trade …
WILMINGTON, DEL.—A Canadian member of a hacking ring is believed to be the first foreign hacker ever convicted of stealing trade secrets in the United States ... «Toronto Star, Jun 15»
6
Illinois teen admits to stealing guns to sell in Ferguson, Missouri
Dakota Moss, 19, of Centralia, admitted in federal court to burglarizing a farm and home supply store and stealing 39 guns in November of last year. Moss and a ... «Reuters, Apr 15»
7
Ex-nanny for Penguins' Chris Kunitz charged with stealing jewelry
PITTSBURGH -- The former nanny of Pittsburgh Penguins player Chris Kunitz has been charged with stealing diamond earrings worth about $12,000 from his ... «ESPN, Apr 15»
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Hidden cameras reveal airport workers stealing from luggage
The camera showed baggage handlers stealing items on flights bound for Israel, including a $5,000 Seiko watch, iPhones, an iPad, cameras, gold rings and ... «CNN, Apr 15»
9
NYPD detective caught stealing cash during bodega raid: cops
“I [can understand] a thief coming inside the store and stealing, but cops? No.” Cyrus, a member of the Brooklyn North Narcotics squad, entered the Yemen Deli ... «New York Post, Apr 15»
10
Comedian Russell Peters Claims Trevor Noah Steals Jokes: 'You …
The allegations of Noah's joke-stealing stretch back to 2013, when he was accused of ripping jokes from fellow South African comedian David Kau, and in an ... «Mediaite, Apr 15»
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