# [uncountable] activities that involve breaking the law.

• This month's figures show an increase in violent crime.

• There needs to be a partnership between police and public in the fight against crime.

• Stores spend more and more on crime prevention every year.

• DNA data is extremely useful in fighting serious crime.

• He began to drift into a life of petty crime (= crime that is not very serious).

• gun/knife crime

• a rise in street crime

• He turned to crime when he dropped out of school.

• The crime rate is rising.

• crime fiction/novels (= stories about crime)

• crime figures/statistics

• Victims of crime may be able to obtain compensation.

• She’s a crime writer (= she writes stories about crime).

# smuggle something/somebody (+ adv./prep.) to take, send or bring goods or people secretly and illegally into or out of a country, etc.

• They were caught smuggling diamonds into the country.

• He managed to smuggle a gun into the prison.

• smuggled drugs

• We do not yet know how the bomb was smuggled abroad.

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