Usually means: Unlawful entry into a building.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word breaking and entering:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. breaking and entering: Merriam-Webster
  2. breaking and entering: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. breaking and entering: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. breaking and entering: Collins English Dictionary
  5. breaking and entering: Vocabulary.com
  6. breaking and entering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. breaking-and-entering, breaking and entering: Wiktionary
  8. breaking and entering: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. breaking and entering: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. breaking and entering: Dictionary.com
  11. Breaking and Entering (Burn Notice), Breaking and Entering (disambiguation), Breaking and Entering (film), Breaking and Entering (novel), Breaking and Entering (song), Breaking and Entering (soundtrack), Breaking and Entering, Breaking and entering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. breaking and entering: Rhymezone
  13. breaking and entering: FreeDictionary.org
  14. breaking and entering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. breaking and entering: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. breaking and entering: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. breaking and entering: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. breaking and entering: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. breaking and entering: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breaking and entering: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breaking and entering: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breaking and entering: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (breaking and entering)

noun:  (law) The crime of gaining unauthorized entry into another's property, usually by breaking part of a building (a lock, door, window, etc.)

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