Definition of Robbery

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Definition of Robbery
	Robbery The act or practice of robbing; theft. The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2. Related Definitions: Act, Crime, Of, Or, Practice, Rob, Robbing, See, The, Theft

Robbery Quotations

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
George Washington

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine

Property is organized robbery.
George Bernard Shaw

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
Johnny Carson

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
Jessica Savitch

But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.
Patty Hearst

I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train.
Ronald Biggs

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.
Denis Kearney

We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.
Jeff Cooper

Robbery Translations

robbery in French is rapine
robbery in Italian is rapina
robbery in Latin is furtum

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