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# burglary

«burglary» in Mova's school dictionary: **the crime of breaking into a building to steal things** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a burglary, burglaries; burglary uncountable as a crime)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Burglary is the crime of breaking into a building to steal things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burglary/#m1)

2) A burglary is one time this happens: «There was a burglary next door». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burglary/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday safety families lock doors and windows to prevent burglary, and a burglar alarm warns of break-ins. In stories and news, police investigate a burglary. Related words: burglar (the person), burgle/burglarize (the verb).

### examples

- There was a burglary on our street last night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burglary/#x1)
- Lock the back door to help prevent burglary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burglary/#x2)
- The police are investigating the burglary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burglary/#x3)
- Burglary is a serious crime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burglary/#x4)
- After the burglary we got a new alarm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burglary/#x5)
- The detective solved three burglaries in one week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burglary/#x6)

### note

Plural «burglaries» (y becomes ies). A burglary is breaking in; a robbery uses force or threats against a person; theft is any stealing. Spelled «burg-», not «burgal-».

### In the corpora

- [When something bad happens to someone, like a burglary, blame the person who did it, not the person it happened to.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «burglary» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/burglary/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.