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Housebreaking

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Noun

1. break-in, breaking and entering, housebreaking

trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Housebreaking

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noun
criminal law
the act of entering a building as a trespasser for an unlawful purpose. Assimilated with burglary, 1968

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Housebreaking

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noun
the act of breaking and entering into another's house to commit theft or some other felony: it is itself a felony

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Housebreaking

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n.
The act of unlawfully breaking into and entering another's house.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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