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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

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

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

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

Robbery Translations

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


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