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It is a plural noun that refers to people who illegally enter a building or property with the intent to steal or commit a crime. Example: The neighborhood had been experiencing a string of burglaries, with several residents reporting their homes had been broken into by skilled burglars.
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burglars
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Plural of burglar
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A college student at the shop said he also overheard Kaarma talk about shooting burglars but told defense attorneys he didn't believe Kaarma would actually shoot anyone.
The strange death of Boris Berozovsky, the exiled Russian oligarch, is using police time as much as Islamist extremists or Latvian burglars.
It's saving a phenomenal amount of money, it's decreased crime because burglars love ambient lighting, it's nice to see the night sky and, as someone who lives in a main street that has had its lights cut off, I can get a good night's sleep".
The fourth campaigner, a Cambridge University student, said he had called the police to report suspected burglars.
Or burglars would come.
People are at home more, leaving fewer opportunities for burglars to break in undetected, suggests Siddartha Bandyopadhyay, an economist at Birmingham University.
James Treadwell, an expert on crime at Birmingham University, says that the few remaining career burglars he knows steal cannabis plants, a crime that few victims report.Central locking and immobilisers have made it harder to steal cars, turning it into a crime for the committed and skilled.
He had, shall we say, a bit of a thing about burglars.
As passengers are robbed by taxi-drivers, householders are shot in their homes by burglars, even the education minister gets mugged, crime now heads the list of public concerns, for the first time since 1983.Inevitably, the politicians are rushing to be seen to be doing something.
That's why we do those out-of-the-blue hatchet jobs every now and then, like "The great euro sell-out" or "Burglars' best friend", even when we're supposed to be backing him.
As one economist quips: "Argentines are now more worried about burglars at home than about banks ripping them off".
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