1 an occasion when a building is entered illegally by a criminal or criminals, usually by damaging a window or door, especially in order to steal something --
2 to enter a building illegally, usually by damaging a door or window, esp. for the purpose of stealing something: --
3 the crime of entering a building by damaging a door or window, usually in order to steal: --
Especially at risk are the elderly, who find a break-in particularly traumatic.
The advantage of nuclears to the defender arises only before the break-in, but in this case there is nothing to break in.
Any incident of break-in is always referred to the police for investigation.
He told me that when there is a break-in the first question invariably is: who checked the premises?
People on estates are victims of some of the worst vandalism, break-in rates and consequences of drug dealing.
However, a single break-in could involve three offences.
One would never expect them to visit the scene of a house break-in.
They included a break-in at an electricity station, resulting in the black-out of hundreds of homes.
