different between pickpocket vs shoplifting

English

Alternative forms

• pick-pocket

Etymology

From pick +? pocket.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?kp?k?t/

Noun

pickpocket (plural pickpockets)

1. One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:pickpocket

Translations

Verb

pickpocket (third-person singular simple present pickpockets, present participle pickpocketing, simple past and past participle pickpocketed)

1. To pick pockets; to steal.

Translations

French

Etymology

From English pickpocket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pik.p?.k?t/

Noun

pickpocket m (plural pickpockets)

1. pickpocket

Further reading

• “pickpocket” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

The noun sense (from 1690) predates the verb.

Noun

shoplifting (countable and uncountable, plural shopliftings)

1. (uncountable) The action of stealing goods from a shop; the action of the verb shoplift.
   • 1724, The Chronological Diary For the Year 1724, page 45,

     […] William Grove for robbing his Master of twenty-sive Guineas ; and Catharine Knox for Shoplifting.

   • 1757 December 22, The London Chronicle, Volume II: June 30 - December 31, page 594,

     Yesterday Afternoon a Woman well dre?s'd, was detected at Mr. Flint?s, a Haberdasher on London-Bridge, in Shoplifting, and on examining her, there were found on her ?ome Goods belonging to Mr. Kennet, a Haberdasher at the ?ame Place.

   • 2006, Gennaro F. Vito, Jeffrey R. Maahs, Ronald M. Holmes, Criminology: Theory, Research, And Policy, page 337,

     Shoplifting is one of the most prevalent crimes and it costs retailers millions of dollars each year.

2. (countable) A theft from a shop during trading hours.
   • 2000, Elmer H Johnson, Carol Johnson, Linking Community and Corrections in Japan, page 180,

     In high school, he bleached his hair and began a series of shopliftings and bicycle thefts.

   • 2004, “An American”, Arlington?s Blood, iUniverse, page 82,

     And we hardly even consider the countless robberies, shopliftings, burglaries, carjackings, kidnappings, stalkings, intimidations and harassments.

   • 2012, Lawrence Fennelly, Handbook of Loss Prevention and Crime Prevention, 5th Edition, page 171,

     When we described the 80-20 rule, we mentioned that 5% of the stores in Danvers, Massachusetts, accounted for 50% of the reported shopliftings.

Translations

Verb

shoplifting

1. present participle of shoplift