{
    "term": "theft",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the crime of stealing something from a person or place",
            "sensetop": "theft (of something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "car theft"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Police are investigating the theft of computers from the company's offices."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A number of thefts have been reported recently."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She admitted the theft of three pairs of shoes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are accused of theft from a newsagent's shop."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a spate of thefts over the Christmas period"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the crime of attempted theft"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the wholesale theft of copyrighted music"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Crime and punishment"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["petty", "grand", "attempted"],
                "… of thefts": ["series", "spate", "string"],
                "preposition": ["theft from", "theft of"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/θeft/",
                "audio": "th/theft/theft__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/θeft/",
                "audio": "th/theft/theft__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English thīefth, thēofth, of Germanic origin; related to thief."
}