'shoplifter' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone who steals items from a shop without paying for them. Example sentence: The store security guards were able to apprehend the shoplifter within minutes of his entering the premises.
This quandary sometimes surfaces over questions of infidelity and — more uncomfortably — in situations where victims are viewed as partly at fault for the hardships that befall them (if a shop owner totally ignores shoplifting, is he enticing a potential shoplifter into becoming his worst self?).
Their article included a list of recent shoplifting heists "that border on the miraculous": Once, a shoplifter stole raccoon coat out of a Brooks Brothers show window.
On this model, Shelley coined two backformations at once when he wrote of those who "sheepsteal, and shoplift" (verbs long predated by the nouns sheepstealer and shoplifter).
Rather, the sort of person who becomes a "chaotic" drug user is also disproportionately likely already to be an "acquisitive offender": a thief, shoplifter (the addict's crime of choice) or burglar.
Erring MPs cannot escape punishment by offering grovelling apologies and repaying the unjustified expenses they were caught claiming: that would be like letting off a shoplifter who volunteered to return the dress she swiped from Harrods.
In 2003, a prolific Cardiff shoplifter was caught stealing from two shops.
German politics has been a duller place since Mr Fischer left to teach and write.His beginnings were inauspicious: school drop-out, shoplifter, occasional taxi-driver.
Leisen's first film of the 1940s, Remember the Night (1940), featured a funny script by Sturges and starred MacMurray again, this time opposite Barbara Stanwyck, playing a recidivist shoplifter who gets caught at Christmastime.
Jones made her TV debut on the show in the early 1960s as a policewoman, and later returned as a shoplifter.
Things are much less complicated with Kieron, an addict and shoplifter whose 12-step rhetoric about getting clean is tragically undercut by the fact that his speech is so slurred by drugs that you can barely understand it.
Investigating officer PC Michael Harkin said: "Clare is a prolific shoplifter and this offence was particularly distasteful.
