The act of stealing goods that are on display in a store:
— Shrinkage is the retail trade's euphemism for shoplifting.

synoniem: shrinkage.

Roget 791: stealing etc. v.; theft, thievery, latrociny^†, direption^†; abstraction, appropriation; plagiary, plagiarism; autoplagiarism^†; latrocinium^†.    spoliation, plunder, pillage; sack, sackage^†; rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia^†, rape, depredation, raid; blackmail.    piracy, privateering, buccaneering; license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal.    filibustering, filibusterism^†; burglary; housebreaking; badger game [Slang].    robbery, highway robbery, hold-up [U.S.], mugging.    peculation, embezzlement; fraud etc. 545; larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting.    thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia^†, den of Cacus, den of thieves.    blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand [U.S.].    [person who commits theft] thief etc. 792.    ... meer laten zien

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