grand theft

1. 1.

   larceny of property having a value greater than some amount (the amount varies by locale)

   Synonymsgrand larceny

   Broaderlarceny

Questions about grand theft

What does grand theft mean?

grand theft means "larceny of property having a value greater than some amount (the amount varies by locale)".

What is another word for grand theft?

Close synonyms include grand larceny. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grand theft a common word?

grand theft is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.