Crime & punishment

Crime & punishment

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drug dealing

Law enforcement; Crime & punishment

1. A person who sells drug: Someone tried to sell me some marijuana during the concert. 2. A person who sells illegal drugs, esp narcotics such as heroin and morphine.

1. Deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage. 2. A particular instance of such deceit or trickery: mail fraud; ...

robbery

Law enforcement; Crime & punishment

1. The act, the practice, or an instance of robbing. 2. Law. the felonious taking of the property of another from his or her person or in his or her immediate presence, against his or her will, by ...

smuggling

Law enforcement; Crime & punishment

1. To import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty. 2. To bring, take, put, etc., surreptitiously: She smuggled the gun into the jail inside a ...

terrorism

Law enforcement; Crime & punishment

1. The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes. 2. The state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization. 3. A terroristic method of ...

theft

Law enforcement; Crime & punishment

1. The act of stealing; the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of another; larceny. 2. An instance of this. 3. Archaic. something stolen.

hijacking

Law enforcement; Crime & punishment

1. To steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop: to hijack a load of whiskey. 2. To rob (a vehicle) after forcing it to stop: They hijacked the truck before it entered the ...