robbery
noun
1 robbery
Larceny by threat of violence.
Roget 791:
stealing
etc.
v.;
theft,
thievery,
latrociny†,
direption†;
abstraction,
appropriation;
plagiary,
plagiarism;
autoplagiarism†;
latrocinium†.
spoliation,
plunder,
pillage;
sack,
sackage†;
rapine,
brigandage,
foray,
razzia†,
rape,
depredation,
raid;
blackmail.
piracy,
privateering,
buccaneering;
license to plunder,
letters of marque,
letters of mark and reprisal.
filibustering,
filibusterism†;
burglary;
housebreaking;
badger game [Slang].
robbery,
highway robbery,
hold-up [U.S.],
mugging.
peculation,
embezzlement;
fraud
etc.
545;
larceny,
petty larceny,
grand larceny,
shoplifting.
thievishness,
rapacity,
kleptomania,
Alsatia†,
den of Cacus,
den of thieves.
blackmail,
extortion,
shakedown,
Black Hand [U.S.].
[person who commits theft]
thief
etc.
792.
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Dutch: roof
Polish: rabowanie, łupienie, grabienie
2 robbery
Plundering during riots or in wartime.
synonym: looting.
Polish: szaberek
Moby thesaurus: armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry, bank robbery, bereavement, breaking and entering, burglary, burgling, caper, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, cost, damage, dead loss, debit, denial, denudation, depredation, deprivation, despoilment, destruction, detriment, dispossession, divestment, expense, extortion, filch, forfeit, forfeiture, grab, heist, highway robbery, hijack, hijacking, hold-up, holdup, injury, job, larceny, lift, looting, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, mugging, perdition, pilferage, pilfering, pillage, pillaging, pinch, pinching, plunder, plundering, pocket picking, privation, purse snatching, ransacking, rip-off, robbing, ruin, sack, sacking, sacrifice, spoliation, steal, stealing, stickup, stickup job, stripping, taking away, theft, thievery, thieving, total loss ... show more.
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