Definitions
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- noun The act of
looting , the act of stealing during a general disturbance. - verb Present participle of
loot .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun plundering during riots or in wartime
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Examples
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And the term "looting" should be reserved for items that are not necessary to preserve human life.
Crooks and Liars karoli 2011
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I'm using the term looting in the sense defined by the economists George Akerlof and Paul Romer in 1993 paper Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit.
economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk Paul Krugman 2010
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I'm using the term looting in the sense defined by the economists George Akerlof and Paul Romer in a 1993 paper titled "Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit."
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I'm using the term looting in the sense defined by the economists George Akerlof and Paul Romer in 1993 paper Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit.
economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk Paul Krugman 2010
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I'm using the term looting in the sense defined by the economists George Akerlof and Paul Romer in 1993 paper Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit.
economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk Paul Krugman 2010
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I'm using the term looting in the sense defined by the economists George Akerlof and Paul Romer in 1993 paper Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit.
economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk Paul Krugman 2010
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I'm using the term looting in the sense defined by the economists George Akerlof and Paul Romer in a 1993 paper titled "Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit."
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China has accused the Dalai Lama of inciting the riots, which it describes as looting by a small group of Tibetan separatists.
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China has accused the Dalai Lama of inciting the riots, which it describes as looting by a small group of Tibetan separatists.
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Cuomo, New York's governor-elect, decried what he called looting and said the "cruel twist"
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