0 stealing, especially (in the US) the crime of taking something that does not belong to you, without illegally entering a building to do so --
1 the crime of taking something that does not belong to you, but not in a way that involves force or the threat of force: --
[ U ] As a pickpocket, he was charged with larceny.
2 stealing, especially the crime of taking something that does not belong to you, without entering a building illegally in order to do so: --
It also produced what is to me a rather curious side light: it produced a sharp decrease in crime, particularly in petty larceny.
House-breaking, larceny, stealing from working-class houses, have trebled.
In the big cities these problems are reflected in crime ranging from petty vandalism to grand larceny, armed robbery and so on.
Does praedial larceny mean stealing the other fellow's vegetables?
Larceny constituted 80 percent of all crimes.
In this case, a juvenile of twelve was facing a hearing to determine whether, having committed larceny, he should be sent to reformatory for eighteen months.
She is under imprisonment for petit larceny.
The figures available for larceny-often considered to be one of the most difficult categories of crime both to detect and to clear-are also impressive when seen in a comparative context.
