0 used to describe equipment that is intended to prevent something from being stolen:
Many manufacturers now provide all their cars with anti-theft devices.
For example, surveillance equipment may be used to counter criminal activities—by anti-theft devices in retail outlets for instance—or for monitoring the performance of malfunctioning of machinery and industrial processes.
We shall incorporate anti-theft and anti-counterfeiting devices in the printing of prescription forms.
Then there is the question of anti-theft devices.
Adequate security devices or anti-theft equipment such as security-coded radios should be fitted.
There should be a loaded premium for a car without an anti-theft device and an unloaded premium for a car with one.
Manufacturers already fit anti-theft devices voluntarily on all new cars.
We may reduce burglary, but we do not get rid of burglars because we have anti-theft laws.
The fitting of anti-theft devices in cars, for example, owes a great deal to the efforts of this committee.