shop stealer
Noun
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Noun
shop stealer (plural shop stealers)
- (Australia) A shoplifter.
- If you suspect a shop stealer, pay this person a lot of attention.
- 1989, Criminologica Foundation, Criminology & Penology Abstracts, Volume 29, Issues 4-6, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ElXmAAAAMAAJ&q=%22shop+stealer|stealers%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22shop+stealer|stealers%22+australia+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=OErGhEszmW&sig=yEX9Q0RiZynkS0EuyBUMRbHxDW8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3TtHUPGGLa-diAft_4D4DA&redir_esc=y page 438],
- This article reports comparisons of views on shop stealers held by involved professionals […] .
- 2003, Geoffrey Heard, Gordon Woolf, Success in Store: How to Start Or Buy a Retail Business, Enjoy Running It, The Worsley Press, Australia, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LsxamNBs23MC&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&dq=%22shop+stealer|stealers%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=r1fQfg-yGM&sig=cto0C3f0mJA1aeadHAdVz19Hs_A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EkBHUITgB9GXiQfM8IDIBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22shop%20stealer|stealers%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 107],
- I am writing this the day after I sacked a customer (yes, you can sack a customer — Gordon′s example of a shop stealer is sacking a customer) who is struggling for dollars, but refused to take advice about building his business and accepted the blandishments of a Yellow Pages salesman.
- 2008, William Wilkie, The Home Psychiatrist, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=e6buiokQQg8C&pg=PA379&lpg=PA379&dq=%22shop+stealer|stealers%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=owdEM_6ERo&sig=36fkoThFI8U5n_p4e4WJ3kiYk5A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EkBHUITgB9GXiQfM8IDIBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22shop%20stealer|stealers%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 379],
- It is essential for the compulsive shop-stealer to be charged by police, for the gambler to repay his debts, the violent alcoholic to repair the damaged furniture.
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