thievery

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: thiev=er=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

thievery, n. 

•  The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness.  [1913 Webster]

  "Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is stolen.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

thievery, n. the act or practice of stealing.

THESAURUS

thievery

abstraction, annexation, appropriation, boosting, conversion, conveyance, embezzlement, filching, fraud, graft, larceny, liberation, lift, lifting, pilferage, pilfering, pinch, pinching, poaching, purloining, scrounging, shoplifting, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, steal, stealage, stealing, swindle, swiping, theft, thieving, touch

ROGET THESAURUS

thievery

Stealing

N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.