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Definition of Robbery

Robbery

  1. The act or practice of robbing; theft.
  2. The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2.

Robbery Quotations

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

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

Property is organized robbery.
George Bernard Shaw

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

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
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Robbery Translations

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

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