SCCSTEALto take something from a shop without paying for it 在商店里行窃
—shoplifter noun [countableC]
Shoplifters will be prosecuted.
店内行窃者将被起诉。
Examples from the Corpus
shoplift• At least she only robbed bins and doorsteps, she didn't shoplift.• For example, one could not suffer amputation for shoplifting.• The clerkspotted the girlshoplifting and stopped her from leaving the store.• The black and Hispaniccommunitymobilized in the belief that the shoplifting charges and the shooting were unjustified.• A shopliftingdiplomat caught on videotape was prosecuted by his own government.• So I had to go out shoplifting every day then.• Daniel was suspended for one game after being arrested for shoplifting last week...• He only had one tinyconviction for shoplifting so far, and felt sure that wouldn't be held against him.• He had taught them how to pick a lock, steal a car, to shoplift ... The list was endless.