different between shoplifting vs taxonomy

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
• Rhymes: -?n?mi

Noun

taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)

1. The science or the technique used to make a classification.
2. A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
3. (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

Synonyms

• taxonomics
• (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy

Coordinate terms

• nomenclature
• ontology

Derived terms

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