thief

1. A criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it (synset 110727453)
   is a type of: criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw - someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
   subtypes:

   • bandit, brigand - an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
   • booster, lifter, shoplifter - a thief who steals goods that are in a store
   • burglar - a thief who enters a building with intent to steal
   • dacoit, dakoit - a member of an armed gang of robbers
   • defalcator, embezzler, peculator - someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use
   • body snatcher, ghoul, graverobber - someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection
   • graverobber - someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts
   • holdup man, stickup man - an armed thief
   • larcener, larcenist - a person who commits larceny
   • cutpurse, dip, pickpocket - a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
   • literary pirate, pirate, plagiariser, plagiarist, plagiarizer - someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own
   • despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler - someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
   • robber - a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence
   • cattle thief, rustler - someone who steals livestock (especially cattle)
   • cracksman, safebreaker, safecracker - a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents
   • snatcher - a thief who grabs and runs
   • pilferer, sneak thief, snitcher - a thief who steals without using violence
   same as: stealer

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