Usually means: Theft of personal property unlawfully.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word larceny:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. larceny: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. larceny: Merriam-Webster
  3. larceny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. larceny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. larceny: Collins English Dictionary
  6. larceny: Vocabulary.com
  7. Larceny, larceny: Wordnik
  8. larceny: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. larceny: Wiktionary
  10. larceny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. larceny: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. larceny: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. larceny: Dictionary.com
  14. larceny: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. larceny: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Larceny (Scheme implementation), Larceny (disambiguation), Larceny: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Larceny: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. larceny: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. larceny: Rhymezone
  20. larceny: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. larceny: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Larceny: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. larceny: FreeDictionary.org
  24. larceny: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. larceny: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. larceny: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. larceny: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. larceny: Legal dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  11. larceny: Law.com Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. larceny: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. larceny, larceny: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. larceny: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See larcenies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (law, uncountable) The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently.
noun:  (law, countable) An individual instance of such a taking.

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