Robbery

Noun

 * 1) The act or practice of robbing.
 * 2)  The offense of attempting to take the property of another by threat of force.

Hypernyms

 * attempt of taking the property of another by threat
 * larceny

Hyponyms

 * attempt of taking the property of another by threat
 * piracy, armed robbery, aggravated robbery, highway robbery, mugging, carjacking, extortion, stick-up, blagging , steaming

Verbs for Robbery
addict to—; commit—; conceal—; contrive —; discover—; escape—; fear—; implicate in—; interrupt—; mourn—; perform—; perpetrate—; plot—; punish—; report—; reveal—; uncover—; —impoverishes; —occurs ; —strips.

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

Etymology
roberie:, from the verb rober: + -ie:. Ultimately from unattested *undefined:. See,.

Translations

 * Croatian: pljačka
 * Finnish: ; ryöstely
 * French: vol
 * German: Raub
 * Italian: furto, ruberia
 * Polish:


 * Russian: грабёж, ограбление
 * Slovene: rop
 * Spanish: robo


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Raub


 * Polish: rozbój
 * Russian: ограбление
 * Slovene: rop


 * : røveri
 * : грабежm, пљачка


 * Cyrillic: грабеж, пљачка
 * Roman: grabež, pljačka
 * Roman: grabež, pljačka

Related terms

 * armed robbery
 * rob
 * robber
 * daylight robbery
 * strong-arm robbery