identity theft | the co-option of another person's personal information (e.g., name, Social Security number, credit card number, passport) without that person's knowledge and the fraudulent use of such knowledge |
larceny theft thievery thieving stealing | the act of taking something from someone unlawfully, the thieving is awful at Kennedy International |
grand larceny grand theft | larceny of property having a value greater than some amount (the amount varies by locale) |
petit larceny petty larceny petty | larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale) |
detraction petty criticism | a petty disparagement |
petit bourgeois petite bourgeoisie petty bourgeoisie | lower middle class (shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.) |
petty apartheid | racial segregation enforced primarily in public transportation and hotels and restaurants and other public places |
petit jury petty jury | a jury of to determine the facts and decide the issue in civil or criminal proceedings |
chief petty officer | a person with the senior noncommissioned naval rank |
petit juror petty juror | a member of a petit jury |
petty officer PO P.O. | a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army |
senior chief petty officer SCPO | a senior noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to master sergeant in the Army |
American spikenard petty morel life-of-man Aralia racemosa | unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels, southeastern North America to Mexico |
broom tree needle furze petty whin Genista anglica | prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe |
petty spurge devil's milk Euphorbia peplus | an Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States |
petty cash | a small fund of cash that a firm keeps for the payment of incidental expenses |
petty small-minded | contemptibly narrow in outlook, petty little comments, disgusted with their small-minded pettiness |
a fiddling footling lilliputian little niggling piddling piffling petty picayune trivial aa | (informal) small and of little importance, a fiddling sum of money, a footling gesture, our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war, a little (or small) matter, a dispute over niggling details, limited to petty enterprises, piffling efforts, giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction |
junior-grade lower-ranking lowly petty(a) secondary subaltern | inferior in rank or status, the junior faculty, a lowly corporal, petty officialdom, a subordinate functionary |