STEALING

verb

1. To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
2. (of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
3. To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.

noun

1. The action of the verb to steal, theft.
2. (chiefly in the plural) That which is stolen; stolen property.