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burglary

noun
🔊/ˈbɜːɡləri/
🔊/ˈbɜːrɡləri/
 [uncountable, countable]
(plural burglaries)
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  1. the crime of entering a building illegally and stealing things from it入室偷盗罪 synonym housebreaking
    • The youth was charged with three counts of burglary.那个年轻人被控犯有三次入室盗窃罪。🔊🔊
    • a rise in the number of burglaries committed in the area该地区盗窃案例数目的上升
    • Audio equipment was stolen in a burglary at the mall.购物中心的音响器材在一起入室盗窃案中被盗。
    compare robbery, theftTopics Crime and punishmentb1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • attempted
    • aggravated
    • house
    • …
    verb + burglary
    • commit
    burglary + verb
    • happen
    • take place
    preposition
    • burglary at
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    Word Originearly 16th cent.: from legal French burglarie, from burgler or Anglo-Latin burgulator, burglator; related to Old French burgier ‘pillage’.