looting
looh ting
- n plundering during riots or in wartime
- v take illegally; of intellectual property
- v steal goods; take as spoils
- American soldiers, who were almost absent from the city where so much looting was going on, were out in force around the adjacent oil fields, which account for a third of Iraq's .
- And that sent people straight back into the streets of Buenos Aires last night not only the unemployed people who'd been looting supermarkets, but middle class people hit hard .
- Several Russian officials, confronted by aid officials with evidence of widespread looting in the occupied Georgian city of Gori, said the area is not their responsibility because .