how to pronounce burglary

/ˈbɜː.ɡləɹ.i/

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burglary is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of burglary in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… there's a report of a burglary in the …”

meaning of burglary

Burglary is the act of entering a building or other area with the intent to commit a crime.

burglary frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word burglary occurs in english on average 5.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics burglary can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that burglary can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;