THIEVE

v. 25B6; verb STEAL, take, purloin, help oneself to, snatch, pilfer; embezzle, misappropriate; have one's fingers/hand in the till; informal rob, swipe, nab, rip off, lift, ‘liberate’, ‘borrow’, filch, snaffle; Brit. informal nick, pinch, half-inch, whip, knock off, nobble; N. Amer. informal heist; formal peculate.