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highway robbery

noun

1 highway robbery

An exorbitant price.

Roget 791: stealing etc. v.; theft, thievery, latrociny, direption; abstraction, appropriation; plagiary, plagiarism; autoplagiarism; latrocinium.    spoliation, ... show more

2 highway robbery

Robbery of travellers on or near a public road.


Moby thesaurus: armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry, bank robbery, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, exploitation, extortion, heist, hijacking, holdup, loan-sharking, mugging, overassessment, overcharge, pocket picking, purse snatching, robbery, robbing ... show more.

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