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To steal is take something that isn't yours: thieves steal. But a bargain that's so good it's almost like you're getting away with robbery is also called a steal.

Stealing is what thieves do: taking things from other people. A bank robber steals money. A mugger steals purses and wallets. People also use steal in other ways. If someone wastes your time, you might say they're stealing your time. A store having a sale might say, "Our prices are a steal!" In baseball, a runner can steal a base. When you see steal, think "take."

DEFINITIONS OF: steal

v take without the owner's consent

“Someone stole my wallet on the train”

“This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation”

Types:: show 17 types...; hide 17 types...; abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe
make off with belongings of others; lift, rustle
take illegally; shoplift
steal in a store; pirate
copy illegally; of published material; lift, plagiarise, plagiarize
take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property; bag, pocket
take unlawfully; defalcate, embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate
appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; rob
take something away by force or without the consent of the owner; cop, glom, hook, knock off, snitch, thieve
take by theft; walk off
take without permission; hustle, pluck, roll
sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity; loot, plunder
take illegally; of intellectual property; burglarise, burglarize, burgle, heist
commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling; hold up, stick up
rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat; crib
take unauthorized (intellectual material); fiddle
commit fraud and steal from one's employer; pick
pilfer or rob

Type of:: take
take by force

v move stealthily

Synonyms:: slip

Type of:: move
move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion

v steal a base

Type of:: advance, gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win
obtain advantages, such as points, etc.

n an advantageous purchase

Synonyms:: bargain, buy

Types:: song
a very small sum; travel bargain
a bargain rate for travellers on commercial routes (usually air routes)

Type of:: purchase
something acquired by purchase

n a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)

Type of:: baseball, baseball game
a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs

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