acquisitive

Example Sentences

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Deputy Chief Constable Jayne Meir, the NPCC's first lead for freight crime, said a new team at Opal - a police intelligence unit tackling organised acquisitive crime - would start targeting the issue next year.

From BBC

The acquisitive power of the very rich is soaring.

From The Wall Street Journal

European engineers and entrepreneurs since the dot-com boom of the 1990s have flocked to the U.S. for its acquisitive consumers, bountiful funding and love of innovation.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr Makepeace said the majority were for "relatively minor dishonesty offences", most usually shoplifting, and he had a "record typical of a life of acquisitive crime to fund drug use".

From BBC

The Offending 2 Recovery programme started work in 2018 in Erdington, Birmingham, in response to research that revealed addiction to drugs drove as much as 50% of all acquisitive crime in the area.

From BBC