shoplift
/ˈʃɒpˌlɪft/ verb [I or T] COMMERCEDefinition
› to take goods from a store without paying for them: There are a million-and-one reasons why people shoplift. The home pregnancy test is the most shoplifted item in the store.catch sb shoplifting Aged 12, I was caught shoplifting.
→ See Note steal(Definition of shoplift verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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