shoplifting

The action of stealing goods from a shop, store or other place of business.uncountable

• 1757 December 22, The London Chronicle, Volume II: June 30 - December 31, page 594, Yesterday Afternoon a Woman well dreſs'd, was detected at Mr. Flint′s, a Haberdasher on London-Bridge, in Shoplifting, and on examining her, there were foun

A theft from a shop during trading hours.countable

• In high school, he bleached his hair and began a series of shopliftings and bicycle thefts.
• And we hardly even consider the countless robberies, shopliftings, burglaries, carjackings, kidnappings, stalkings, intimidations and harassments.

present participle and gerund of shopliftform-ofgerundparticiple