breaking and entering

English

Noun

breaking and entering (uncountable)

1. (law) The crime of gaining unauthorized entry into another's property, usually by breaking part of a building (a lock, door, window, etc.)

Translations

crime

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: murto (fi), murtautuminen (not by itself considered a crime in Finnish law; burglaries are categorized under theft, etc.)
• French: entrée par effraction, introduction par effraction
• German: Einbruch (de) m
• Hebrew: פְּרִיצָה f (pritzá)

Verb

breaking and entering

1. present participle and gerund of break and enter

Related terms

• break and enter
• break in

See also

• breaking and entering on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• burglary
• housebreaking
• larceny
• B&E