The word doesn't exist. There's a verb "burgle", which means to steal (eg from a house) without assaulting a person (which would be "robbery"). The person who commits this crime is a "burglar", and what he/she does is "burglary". An illiterate somewhere has taken "burglar" as the root, and added a verb ending to create "burglarize". The next step is, presumably, burglarization, then burglarizationer, then burglarizationerize, and so on ad nauseam.

submitted by Keith Jillings

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