housebreaking
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house·break·ing
(hous′brā′kĭng)n.
The act of unlawfully breaking into and entering another's house.
house′break′er n.
housebreaking
(ˈhaʊsˌbreɪkɪŋ)n
(Law) criminal law the act of entering a building as a trespasser for an unlawful purpose. Assimilated with burglary, 1968
ˈhouseˌbreaker n
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| Noun | 1. |  housebreaking - trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intentburglary - entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property home invasion - burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home |
Translations
سَرِقَة منْزِل، السَّطو على البيوت
vloupání
indbrud
innbrot
ev soyma/hırsızlığı
housebreaking
[ˈhaʊsbreɪkɪŋ] n → cambriolage mhouse-broken [ˈhaʊsbrəʊkən] adj (US) = house-trainedhouse call n → visite fhouse-clean [ˈhaʊskliːn] vi (US) → faire le ménagehouse-cleaning [ˈhaʊskliːnɪŋ] n (US) → ménage mhouse
(haus) – plural houses (ˈhauziz) – noun1. a building in which people, especially a single family, live. Houses have been built on the outskirts of the town for the workers in the new industrial estate.
2. a place or building used for a particular purpose. a hen-house; a public house.
3. a theatre, or the audience in a theatre. There was a full house for the first night of the play.
4. a family, usually important or noble, including its ancestors and descendants. the house of David.
(hauz) verb1. to provide with a house, accommodation or shelter. All these people will have to be housed; The animals are housed in the barn.
2. to store or keep somewhere. The electric generator is housed in the garage.
ˈhousing (-ziŋ) noun1. houses. These flats will provide housing for the immigrants.
2. the hard cover round a machine etc.
ˈhousing benefit noun a payment given by a government to people who are entitled to it according to certain criteria (eg poverty) when they buy or rent a house, an apartment etc.
house agent (American ˈreal-estate agent) a person who arranges the sale or letting of houses.
house arrest a type of arrest in which a person is not allowed to leave his own house. He was kept under house arrest.
ˈhouseboat noun a type of boat, usually with a flat bottom, which is built to be lived in.
ˈhousebreaker noun a person who breaks into a house in order to steal.
ˈhousebreaking nounˈhouse-fly noun
the common fly, found throughout the world.
ˈhousehold noun the people who live together in a house, including their servants. How many people are there in this household?
ˈhouseholder noun the person who owns a house or pays the rent for it.
household word something which is well-known to everyone. His name is a household word throughout the country.
ˈhousekeeper noun a person, usually a woman, who is paid to look after the management of a house.
ˈhousekeeping noun the management of a house.
ˈhouseman noun a recently qualified doctor who is living in a hospital while working there to complete his training.
ˈhousetrain verb to train (a dog, cat etc) to be clean inside the house.
ˈhouse-warming noun a party given after moving into a new house.
adjectivea house-warming party.
ˈhousewife noun – plural ˈhousewives – a woman who looks after her house, her husband and her family, and who usually does not have a job outside the home.
ˈhousework noun the work of keeping a house clean and tidy. My mother has a woman to help her with the housework.
like a house on fire1. very well. The two children got on with each other like a house on fire.
2. very quickly. I'm getting through this job like a house on fire.