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Synonyms for shoplifting
The synonym for shoplifting recorded in this bank is shrinkage, in the sense "the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for shoplifting
- shrinkagenoun, in the sense "the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day shoplifting is audited in a second meaning.
the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store
Store cameras cut shoplifting by half last year.
The true synonym
shrinkage
Same sentence, swapped: Store cameras cut shrinkage by half last year.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- embezzlement
- skimming
- rustling
Where shoplifting turns up in the game
shoplifting is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play shoplifting
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so shoplifting reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because actions is the company shoplifting keeps.
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