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Definition of Looting
1. Noun. Plundering during riots or in wartime.
Definition of Looting
1. Noun. The act of looting, the act of stealing during a general disturbance. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of loot) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Looting
1. loot [v] - See also: loot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Looting
Literary usage of Looting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Civilian Devastation: Abuses by All Parties in the War in Southern Sudan by Jemera Rone, John Prendergast, Karen Sorensen (1994)
"looting from Civilians Under Enemy Control Both SPLA factions are guilty of ...
As already set forth elsewhere in the report, looting or pillaging is a ..."
2. Endless Torment: The 1991 Uprising in Iraq and Its Aftermath by Eric Goldstein, Middle East Watch (Organization) (1992)
"looting BY BOTH SIDES Iraqi authorities have long encouraged soldiers to keep
goods they seize during their operations. Officers tell their subordinates, ..."
3. Proxy Targets: Civilians in the War in Burundi by Timothy Paul Longman (1998)
"Since the beginning of their major offensive in April 1997 in Bururi and Makamba,
the FDD has engaged in massive looting of the civilian population. ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1892)
"THE looting OF THE ORCHARD. NUBLE nut avenue down the centre. On either side an
old orchard, with broad open stretches of turf between the rows of ..."
5. China and the Allies by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1901)
"looting commenced at once all over Pekin, although the capital of China did not
suffer quite so much in this respect ..."
6. Behind the Red Line: Political Repression in Sudan by Jemera Rone, Brian Owsley, Human Rights Watch/Africa (1996)
"looting and Taking Hostages by All Parties to the Conflict looting of ...
The record to early 1996 for looting any one relief barge is the 1800 tons of food ..."
7. Municipal Franchises: A Description of the Terms and Conditions Upon which by Delos Franklin Wilcox (1910)
"looting the utility through financial jugglery—One of the natural results ...
in the long list of crimes of negligence and looting charged up against public ..."
8. International Law and the World War by James Wilford Garner (1920)
"Further Devastation and looting in 1918. The almost universal condemnation of
the German armies for the devastation of the Somme region in the spring of ..."
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