Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shoplifting
1 sense of shoplifting
Sense 1
shoplifting, shrinkage -- (the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store; "shrinkage is the retail trade's euphemism for shoplifting")
=> larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing -- (the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb shoplift
1 sense of shoplift
Sense 1
shoplift -- (steal in a store)
=> steal -- (take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation")