petty theft

petty theft

English

Noun

petty theft (countable and uncountable, plural petty thefts)

1. A theft of property having a value lower than a certain small amount set forth in a statute, and considered to be a less serious class of crime.

Translations

theft of property of low value

Chinese: Mandarin: 小偷小摸 (zh) (xiǎotōuxiǎomō) Finnish: näpistys (fi) French: larcin (fr) m, chapardage (fr) m German: Diebstahl (de) m, kleiner Diebstahl m

Japanese: こそ泥 (こそどろ, kosodoro) Russian: ме́лкая кра́жа f (mélkaja kráža) Spanish: hurto (es) m Welsh: mân ladrad (cy)