larceny
B2CEFR level
38/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
The unlawful taking and carrying away of another's personal property with intent to deprive them of it permanently.
In older statutes the offence now called theft was described as larceny.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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