petty theft

English

Noun

petty theft (countable and uncountable, plural petty thefts)

1. A theft of property having a value lower than a certain small amount set forth in a statute, and considered to be a less serious class of crime.

   Synonym: petty larceny

   Coordinate term: grand larceny

Related terms

• grand theft

Translations

theft of property of low value

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小偷小摸 (zh) (xiǎotōuxiǎomō)

• Finnish: näpistys (fi)
• French: larcin (fr) m, chapardage (fr) m
• Galician: furto (gl) m
• German: Bagatelldiebstahl m
• Japanese: こそ泥 (ja) (こそどろ, kosodoro)
• Ottoman Turkish: قایش (kayış)
• Russian: ме́лкая кра́жа f (mélkaja kráža)
• Spanish: hurto (es) m
• Swedish: snatteri (sv), ringa stöld c
• Welsh: mân ladrad (cy)