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Meaning of "sweethearting" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SWEETHEARTING

sweethearting  [ˈswiːtˌhɑːtɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SWEETHEARTING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sweethearting 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 SWEETHEARTING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sweethearting

Sweethearting is a term used in the retail loss prevention industry to mean intentional margin loss through employee theft at the cash register. Sweethearting is the most common type of employee theft. Sweethearting is unauthorized giving-away of merchandise without charge to a "sweetheart" customer by the fake scan or ring-up of merchandise by the cashier. Employees operating cash registers can create numerous ways to sweetheart: ▪ Scan avoidance ▪ Price overrides ▪ Refund fraud, gift card fraud ▪ Void fraud ▪ Invoicing scams There are over 3,000 methods of stopping Sweethearting known to Man, most of them include physical supervision of the cashier or installation of software's that detect sweethearting instantly Sweethearting can be difficult to detect. Common countermeasures include use of CCTV surveillance cameras and security guards checking customer receipts at exits.

Definition of sweethearting in the English dictionary

The definition of sweethearting in the dictionary is the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SWEETHEARTING


backstarting
ˈbækˌstɑːtɪŋ
blokarting
ˈbləʊˌkɑːtɪŋ
cheating
ˈtʃiːtɪŋ
computing
kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ
darting
ˈdɑːtɪŋ
eating
ˈiːtɪŋ
go-carting
ˈɡəʊkɑːtɪŋ
go-karting
ˈɡəʊkɑːtɪŋ
greeting
ˈɡriːtɪŋ
heating
ˈhiːtɪŋ
karting
ˈkɑːtɪŋ
meeting
ˈmiːtɪŋ
parting
ˈpɑːtɪŋ
recruiting
rɪˈkruːtɪŋ
reporting
rɪˈpɔːtɪŋ
seating
ˈsiːtɪŋ
shooting
ˈʃuːtɪŋ
sporting
ˈspɔːtɪŋ
supporting
səˈpɔːtɪŋ
troubleshooting
ˈtrʌbəlʃuːtɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SWEETHEARTING

sweetbriar
sweetbrier
sweeten
sweetener
sweetening
sweetfish
sweetheart
sweetheart agreement
sweetheart deal
sweetheart neckline
sweetie
sweetiewife
sweetiewives
sweeting
sweetish
sweetishly
sweetishness
sweetly
sweetman
sweetmeal

WORDS THAT END LIKE SWEETHEARTING

accounting
cold starting
comforting
discomforting
disconcerting
diverting
importing
nonsporting
parallel importing
ripsnorting
self-asserting
self-supporting
shirting
skirting
smirting
snorting
sorting
Storting
undiverting
unsporting
water parting

Synonyms and antonyms of sweethearting in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sweethearting» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SWEETHEARTING

Find out the translation of sweethearting to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sweethearting from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sweethearting» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

sweethearting
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

descuentos ilícitos
570 millions of speakers

English

sweethearting
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

sweethearting
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

sweethearting
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

sweethearting
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sweethearting
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

sweethearting
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sweethearting
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sayang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sweethearting
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

なれあい
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

sweethearting
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Seneng banget
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sweethearting
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

sweethearting
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रेमळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sweethearting
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sweethearting
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sweethearting
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

sweethearting
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sweethearting
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

sweethearting
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sweethearting
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sweethearting
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sweethearting
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sweethearting

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SWEETHEARTING»

The term «sweethearting» is used very little and occupies the 187.667 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SWEETHEARTING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sweethearting» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sweethearting» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWEETHEARTING»

Discover the use of sweethearting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sweethearting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Going a-Courting; sweethearting; love, and such like. By Old ...
Chatty CHEERFUL (Old, pseud. [i.e. William Martin.]) corpse. I have known more than one case of selfdestruction from the same cause. Not long since, I paid a visit to our county lunatic asylum; and there a most wretched object was pointed out ...
Chatty CHEERFUL (Old, pseud. [i.e. William Martin.]), 1861
2
Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South: Slave ...
But he presumably would not have run away in the first place had he already felt liberated by sweethearting. Behind the distance between fathers like Green and their children, back of the inequities between slave men and women, were ...
Anthony E. Kaye, 2009
3
Employment Law: The Essential HR Desk Reference
sweethearting businesses from recording phone calls unless one or both parties to the call are aware of the monitoring. For methods of surveillance that aren't specifically prohibited by statute, courts typically assess an employee's claim of ...
Lisa Guerin J.D., 2011
4
Guess Who's Eating Your Profits...: The Manager's Essential ...
Sweethearting is one of those tiresome petty theft scams that can have a huge impact on the bottom line if your entire wait staff gets involved in the fun. Taking care of one's buddies, or Sweethearting, by providing free food and drink is as old ...
Craig A. Whitfield, 2013
5
Information Technology For Retailing
Retail Technology to Spot Sweethearting! An article published in the Times of India on May 12th. 2009, talked about a retailer called Big Y in Massachusetts, USA. This retailer has installed security cameras that have been programmed to  ...
Khurana, 2010
6
Mackney's Songs of Negro Life, as sung by him at St. James's ...
When he was sweethearting her, a sweet love-song he'd sing, Begin with ' Dear Sabina,' and end with ' ting-a-ring 1' When the morning sun got up, and o'er the mountain peep, Mingo, by the old log-hut, a watch for her did keep; That made ...
E. M. MACKNEY, 1860
7
The Wide World Songster
When he was sweethearting, &c. On Sunday, the nigger's holiday, Down by the river side, Where the pretty little fishes Were playing in the tide, The tall crab and. the bullrush Their heads did bow and shake ;._. When in the sun the niggers ...
‎1863
8
Negro and American Songs, humorous and pathetic, etc
When he was sweethearting, 8w. On Sunday, the nigger's holiday, Down by the river side, Where the pretty little fishes Were playing in the tide, The tall crab and the bnllrush Their heads did bow and shake -._ When in the sun the niggers slept  ...
‎1861
9
This Distracted and Anarchical People: New Answers for Old ...
Anthony Kaye argues that “antebellum intimate relations at the boundaries of commitment—sweethearting and marriage—changed most radically after emancipation. Freedpeople ceased to associate sweethearting with the first stirrings of ...
Andrew L. Slap, Michael Thomas Smith, 2013
10
The Savage-club Papers
... now it is blooming all over. Looking on, then, at sweethearting in the highest circles — I know a lord and a lady or two, but I am not bragging of it — I am inclined to think that sweethearting among the aristocracy is somewhat cold and formal.
Andrew Halliday, 1867

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SWEETHEARTING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sweethearting is used in the context of the following news items.
1
CAP takes security to the next level
... avoidance —referred to as “sweethearting, to detecting basket-based losses, or items not scanned in self check-out — adding to Retailers profits,” CAP stated. «Trinidad News, Jul 15»
2
Adding Value With Cash Management Solutions
Dishonest retail workers have been known to outright steal, purposely overcharge customers to pocket the difference, and in what is known as “sweethearting,” ... «Business Solutions Magazine, Jul 15»
3
The Problems Of The Bahamas
Some look down on marriages of conveniences, selling drugs, sweethearting and smuggling of illegals with some contempt, but why, isn't there a profit in it? «Bahamas Tribune, May 15»
4
"Fenomeen van sweethearting is in opmars"
za 07/03/2015 - 11:01 Marij Vanherle Sweethearting, het fenomeen waarbij de kassabediende in een winkel ongeoorloofde kortingen geeft aan familie of ... «VRT Nieuws, Mar 15»
5
'Sweethearting' treft kwart handelaars
Bijna één op de vier handelaars is de voorbije jaren het slachtoffer geweest van 'sweethearting'. Dat blijkt uit een onderzoek van zelfstandigenorganisatie NSZ. «De Standaard, Mar 15»
6
StopLift Watches You At The Self-Checkout
A combination camera/image detection system, it watches self- and staffed checkout systems for signs of theft and “sweethearting” (the process of letting folks ... «TechCrunch, Feb 15»
7
Crime: What On Earth Is It?
I mean, surely sweethearting is not a crime but it certainly leads to countless crimes of passion. #A brilliant Jamaican psychiatrist explained to me that Caribbean ... «Bahamas Tribune, Jan 15»
8
Subtle Security
Sweethearting costs U.S. companies up to $80 billion per year; two-thirds of ... at Florida State University found that sweethearting costs U.S. companies up to ... «National Retail Federation, Jun 14»
9
Self-checkout aisles, a gift to shoplifters
But the company also uncovered that some cashiers have been seen regularly "sweethearting" items, giving away merchandise to family and friends. «Worcester Telegram, Jan 14»
10
Sweethearting: On The Way Out?
The term “sweetheart” has been accepted for many years now as a euphemism for a much more painful and destructive problem – cheating. Sweethearting has ... «Bahamas Tribune, Apr 13»

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