Meaning of steal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of stealing.
2. To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it
3. To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement
4. A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price; the act of buying it.
   figuratively, slang
5. To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully
6. A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
7. To acquire at a low price
8. A stolen base.
9. To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show
10. Scoring in an end without the hammer.
11. A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: bargain, good value, value for money”

“At this price, this car is a steal.”

“He got that thing for just twenty bucks? What a steal!”

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