the felony of breaking into and entering the house of another at night with intent to steal, extended by statute to cover the breaking into and entering of any of various buildings, by night or day.
Origin of burglary
1150–1200; Middle English <Anglo-French burglarie;see burglar, -y3
The more accomplished students took classes in safe-cracking, burglary, blackmail, and confidence games.
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Identified only as Darius, the teen has been arrested for burglary several times in recent weeks.
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They were arraigned in Manhattan criminal court on charges of burglary, reckless endangerment and jumping from a structure.
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Burglary, something he hated, seemed to be the only way to find evidence.
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It looked like Greg was trying to stop a burglary, and was killed in the ensuing confrontation.
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Somebody was in the bank—at two o'clock in the morning—with tools for burglary.
The Yukon Trail|William MacLeod Raine
In Somersetshire four men were hanged for rape and burglary.
History of England from the fall of Wolsey to the death of Elizabeth. Vol. III|James Anthony Froude
Supposing that a change in the law had placed, for instance, increased difficulties in the way of burglary.
The Task of Social Hygiene|Havelock Ellis
You said you thought those men surveying back of Stresch & Potter's the day before the burglary, were working for the railroad?
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The fact was that the first he heard of the burglary was when the constable came to him and found him and all his family in bed.
State Trials, Political and Social|Various
British Dictionary definitions for burglary
burglary
/ (ˈbɜːɡlərɪ) /
nounplural-ries
English criminal lawthe crime of either entering a building as a trespasser with the intention of committing theft, rape, grievous bodily harm, or damage, or, having entered as a trespasser, of committing one or more of these offences