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asportation

PRONUNCIATION:

(as-puhr-TAY-shuhn)

MEANING:

noun: The carrying away of something unlawfully.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin ab- (away) + portare (to carry). Earliest documented use: 1503. See also disport.

USAGE:

“Wargo was charged with sixth-offense shoplifting by asportation.”
Ayer Woman Charged as Serial Shoplifter; Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg, Massachusetts); Oct 22, 2013.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature. -Jean Cocteau, author and painter (5 Jul 1889-1963)

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