Synonym: burglar, crook, pilferer, robber. Similar words: chief of state, commander in chief, chief executive, shield, cashier, grief, die for, belief. Meaning: [θɪːf] 
n. a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it.
n. a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it. (211) It was easy to guess the identity of the thief.
(212) Don't leave your shopping on the back seat of your car-it's an open invitation to a thief.
More similar words: chief of state, commander in chief, chief executive, shield, cashier, grief, die for, belief, relief, in brief, briefly, this, thin, ethic, thigh, think, thing, third, by this, within, ethics, nothing, think out, think of, ethical, anything, think up, nothing but, two-thirds, clothing.