Definition of "housebreaking" []

• The act of unlawfully breaking into and entering another's house. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The commands were also helpful in housebreaking and before hitting the dove field."
• "Just to explain the anti thumb-turn covers, these try to prevent one kind of housebreaking attack where someone sticks a wire through your letterbox and turns the lock from the inside."
• "Crimes such as housebreaking, hijacking, violent crime or road rage had affected nearly every one of the 200 businesses surveyed."