'Robbery' definitions:
Definition of 'robbery'
(from WordNet)
noun
Larceny by threat of violence
noun
Plundering during riots or in wartime [syn: looting, robbery]
Definition of 'Robbery'
From: GCIDE
- Robbery \Rob"ber*y\, n.; pl. Robberies. [OF. roberie.]
- 1. The act or practice of robbing; theft. [1913 Webster]
- Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Robbery, in a strict sense, differs from theft, as it is effected by force or intimidation, whereas theft is committed by stealth, or privately. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Theft; depredation; spoliation; despoliation; despoilment; plunder; pillage; rapine; larceny; freebooting; piracy. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'robbery'
From: Easton
- Robbery Practised by the Ishmaelites (Gen. 16:12), the Chaldeans and Sabeans (Job 1:15, 17), and the men of Shechem (Judg. 9:25. See also 1 Sam. 27:6-10; 30; Hos. 4:2; 6:9). Robbers infested Judea in our Lord's time (Luke 10:30; John 18:40; Acts 5:36, 37; 21:38; 2 Cor. 11:26). The words of the Authorized Version, "counted it not robbery to be equal," etc. (Phil. 2:6, 7), are better rendered in the Revised Version, "counted it not a prize to be on an equality," etc., i.e., "did not look upon equality with God as a prize which must not slip from his grasp" = "did not cling with avidity to the prerogatives of his divine majesty; did not ambitiously display his equality with God."
- "Robbers of churches" should be rendered, as in the Revised Version, "of temples." In the temple at Ephesus there was a great treasure-chamber, and as all that was laid up there was under the guardianship of the goddess Diana, to steal from such a place would be sacrilege (Acts 19:37).
Synonyms of 'robbery'
From: 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