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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
robbery
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bank robber/robbery
▪ The bank robbers were never caught.
armed robbery (=stealing using a gun)
▪ She got ten years in prison for armed robbery.
commit a robbery
▪ She later admitted committing the robbery.
murder/robbery etc rap
▪ The kid’s been cited twice on drunk-driving raps.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
armed
▪ The amnesty did not include those accused of offences relating to drugs, murder, economic sabotage or armed robbery.
▪ He says he was captured by armed police and was probably planning an armed robbery.
▪ The rates of rape, armed robbery, etc would probably not fall very much.
▪ Last summer he was placed under a supervision order after being found guilty of burglary, armed robbery and car theft.
▪ Detectives are linking it with a series of recent armed robberies, and warn the men could inflict serious injury.
▪ The defendants faced charges arising from three murders, three armed assaults and 32 armed robberies committed between 1980 and 1986.
▪ Two men are accused of murdering the informer to stop him giving evidence at an armed robbery trial.
▪ The defendant argued that any liability which he had, extended only from his breach of duty until the armed robbery.
attempted
▪ He was found guilty of murder and attempted murder and admitted two robberies and one attempted robbery.
▪ Facts: pleaded guilty to two offences of robbery, one of attempted robbery and two of assault with intent to rob.
▪ His car had been damaged at least six times and he'd moved his double glazing factory because of three attempted robberies.
▪ Joseph, of Bow, east London, was given probation at the Old Bailey yesterday for attempted robbery.
▪ He also admitted two other robberies and one attempted robbery.
▪ Facts: convicted of attempted robbery: pleaded guilty to two further offences of robbery and one of indecent assault.
▪ He admitted eight robberies between May and July and asked for two others and six attempted robberies to be taken into consideration.
guilty
▪ They conclude that the defendant was probably guilty of robbery.
▪ James Duncan Fleming was tried twice; at his second trial he was found not guilty of attempted robbery and felony murder.
▪ Corry also pleaded guilty to robbery and having a gun.
▪ Facts: pleaded guilty to robbery, having a firearm with intent and driving while disqualified.
▪ If the jury were to consider the handling account first they would reach the conclusion that he was guilty of the robbery.
▪ He was held not guilty of robbery because the threats were not made in order to take the money.
▪ Facts: pleaded guilty to robbery.
■ NOUN
attempt
▪ All of us will shudder with our colleagues on the receiving end of a nasty robbery attempt.
▪ An robbery attempt occurred at gunpoint.
▪ Gregory, 20, denies murdering Marion Rilka, 51, by slitting her throat in a robbery attempt at her home.
▪ Investigators have yet to establish a motive, but a failed robbery attempt is a likely reason, Moen said.
bank
▪ One major bank robbery had just come to trial.
▪ In 1979, President Carter commuted her seven-year sentence for bank robbery and use of a firearm in commission of a felony.
▪ He lent the group's activists a flat, and laundered the proceeds of their bank robberies.
▪ Stedeford, 27, was convicted in November of a bank robbery charge in Iowa and will be sentenced next month.
▪ Three people have been arrested after Britain's first alleged attempted online bank robbery was thwarted.
▪ Since then, both men have been sentenced to long prison terms for attempted bank robbery in Los Angeles.
▪ The jury earlier acquitted the three of two bank robberies in London, in which the families of managers were also terrorised.
▪ Williams had received the George Medal for saving three young children who were taken hostage during a bank robbery.
daylight
▪ Mind, you wouldn't believe some of the prices they charge up West, talk about daylight robbery.
highway
▪ At the end highway robberies, riots and an unspecified sense of comeuppance is what we are left with.
▪ The constable left in charge of Burford was reluctant to take any action, even when Seb reported the highway robbery at Swinbrook.
▪ This brother-in-law was eventually hanged for highway robbery.
▪ A matter of murder-more than one murder, highway robbery and probably the rape of a young girl too.
▪ She says it's highway robbery.
street
▪ It would also appear, particularly in relation to street robberies, that the law was rarely prosecuted with its full vigour.
■ VERB
arm
▪ In 1929, aged 19, he was sent to the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery.
▪ The charges include armed robbery, distribution of stolen property, illegal gun sales and use, and drug trafficking.
▪ He will move to a women's prison for the final two years of his sentence for armed robbery in 1992.
▪ Before that he spent seven years in the Ohio State Penitentiary for armed robbery.
▪ In an agreement with prosecutors, she pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter and two counts of armed robbery.
charge
▪ Judge Hart said Munn confessed all when interviewed by police but no-one else had been charged with the robbery.
▪ The three, who have not been named, have been charged with robbery and firearms offences.
commit
▪ They had their own ideas about who committed all the robberies in the area, and Oliver was unknown to them.
▪ Dixon later admitted committing the robbery, investigators said.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
daylight robbery
▪ Mind, you wouldn't believe some of the prices they charge up West, talk about daylight robbery.
highway robbery
▪ Sixty dollars for a textbook? That's highway robbery.
▪ A matter of murder-more than one murder, highway robbery and probably the rape of a young girl too.
▪ At the end highway robberies, riots and an unspecified sense of comeuppance is what we are left with.
▪ She says it's highway robbery.
▪ The constable left in charge of Burford was reluctant to take any action, even when Seb reported the highway robbery at Swinbrook.
▪ This brother-in-law was eventually hanged for highway robbery.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Robbery was believed to be the motive for the killing.
▪ He made two escape attempts while serving a sentence for armed robbery.
▪ I took part in my first robbery when I was only thirteen years old.
▪ In the first nine months of this year there were 9611 street robberies involving violence.
▪ Many travelers have been the victims of robberies on this road.
▪ Perkins was given five years in prison for robbery with violence.
▪ Police claim to have found the gun used in this morning's robbery of a downtown convenience store.
▪ The police are investigating a series of bank robberies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A police officer was killed during the robbery.
▪ Could be one those females we never did catch up with, identify, on the early robberies.
▪ Dines is already serving thirty months at a young offenders' institution for robbery.
▪ His car had been damaged at least six times and he'd moved his double glazing factory because of three attempted robberies.
▪ In an agreement with prosecutors, she pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter and two counts of armed robbery.
▪ One major bank robbery had just come to trial.
▪ The judge admitted the notes of interview and Francis was convicted of substantive offences of robbery.
▪ The rates of rape, armed robbery, etc would probably not fall very much.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Robbery

Robbery \Rob"ber*y\, n.; pl. Robberies. [OF. roberie.]

  1. The act or practice of robbing; theft.

    Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.
    --Shak.

  2. (Law) The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2.

    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.

    Syn: Theft; depredation; spoliation; despoliation; despoilment; plunder; pillage; rapine; larceny; freebooting; piracy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
robbery

c.1200, from Old French roberie "robbery, theft," from rober "to rob" (see rob).

Wiktionary
robbery

n. 1 The act or practice of robbing. 2 (context legal English) The offense of taking or attempting to take the property of another by force or threat of force.

WordNet
robbery
  1. n. larceny by threat of violence

  2. plundering during riots or in wartime [syn: looting]

Wikipedia
Robbery

Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force or threat of force or by putting the victim in fear. At common law, robbery is defined as taking the property of another, with the intent to permanently deprive the person of that property, by means of force or fear. Precise definitions of the offence may vary between jurisdictions. Robbery is differentiated from other forms of theft (such as burglary, shoplifting or car theft) by its inherently violent nature (a violent crime); whereas many lesser forms of theft are punished as misdemeanors, robbery is always a felony in jurisdictions that distinguish between the two. Under English law, most forms of theft are triable either way, whereas robbery is triable only on indictment. The word "rob" came via French from Late Latin words (e.g. deraubare) of Germanic origin, from Common Germanic raub -- "theft".

Among the types of robbery are armed robbery involving use of a weapon and aggravated robbery involving use of a deadly weapon or something that appears to be a deadly weapon. Highway robbery or "mugging" takes place outside or in a public place such as a sidewalk, street, or parking lot. Carjacking is the act of stealing a car from a victim by force. Extortion is the threat to do something illegal, or the offer to not do something illegal, in the event that goods are not given, primarily using words instead of actions. Criminal slang for robbery includes "blagging" (armed robbery, usually of a bank) or "stick-up" (derived from the verbal command to robbery targets to raise their hands in the air), and " steaming" (organized robbery on underground train systems).

Robbery (1967 film)

Robbery is a 1967 British crime film directed by Peter Yates and starring Stanley Baker. The story is a heavily fictionalised version of the 1963 Great Train Robbery. The film was produced by Stanley Baker and Michael Deeley, for Baker's company Oakhurst Productions.

Robbery (album)

Robbery is the fifth album by Teena Marie, released in 1983. It is her first album for Epic Records, following her acrimonious departure from Motown the previous year. The album was written and produced by Marie herself and features contributions from Patrice Rushen, Paulinho da Costa, and Steve Ferrone among others. However, the album did not repeat the success of her last Motown release It Must Be Magic, stalling at #13 on the Black Albums chart and only reaching #119 on the Billboard Albums chart.

In 2012, the album was re-released in a remastered and expanded CD edition containing four additional tracks.

Robbery (1897 film)

Robbery (AKA: A Wayfarer Compelled to Disrobe Partially) is an 1897 British short black-and-white silent comedy film directed by Robert W. Paul, featuring a wayfairer who is forced to handover his valuables and some of his clothes to an armed robber. The film, "although only intended as a comedy," according to Michael Brooks of BFI Screenonline, "in fact reveals how the stripping of one's Victorian 'uniform' also meant the stripping of one's integrity," and, "turns the viewer into an accomplice, since it forces us to watch the man's humiliation head-on, ultimately aligning ourselves not with the victim but with the thief." It is included on the BFI DVD R.W. Paul: The Collected Films 1895-1908.

Robbery (disambiguation)

Robbery is the offense of attempting to take the property of another by threat of force.

Robbery may also refer to:

Robbery (1985 film)

Robbery is a 1985 Australian TV movie about the Great Bookie Robbery.

Robbery (2015 film)

Robbery is a 2015 Hong Kong movie.

Usage examples of "robbery".

He classed himself as a witness present at the attempted robbery of the Argyle Museum, and talked along that line.

Fool, I, Rob, do rob and have robbed greater robbers that I might by robbery live to rob like robbers again, as thou, by thy foolish folly, fooleries make, befooling fools lesser than thou, that thou, Fool, by such fool-like fooleries may live to fool like fools again!

A wealthy merchant in bijouterie and glass does not ordinarily meddle with violent robbery in trains, nor drive up into the mountains to compromise himself by being seen with wanted characters near the scene of fresh crimes.

Kathy Boudin, two members of the sixties radical group Weather Underground, who have been in prison for more than twenty years for their part in a 1981 robbery of a Brinks truck that left two policemen and a guard dead.

But, as he had not committed the robbery to give himself the pleasure of making restitution, he threw himself upon me, and we came to a regular fight.

This cashless system will be readily accepted by the world because it will counteract robbery, credit card theft, poor credit ratings, and bad checks.

I have always thought that this robbery could not have been effected without the connivance of the painter.

One finds it very difficult to think a coxcomb can commit robbery and murder.

This was Captain Cozenage, whose record while in charge of the Homicide Squad was without parallel in the annals of crime: as a result of which he had been, in rapid succession, switched to the Loft Robberies, Pigeon Drop, Unlicensed Phrenologists, and Mopery Squads: and was now entrusted with a letter-of-marque to suppress steamboat gamblers on the East River.

The rates for other serious violent crimes, such as aggravated assault, forcible rape, and robbery, were equally disturbing.

English on one half and neat, round Burmese on the other, that five thousand rupees were offered for the capture, dead or alive, of one Boh Lu-Bain, convicted of dacoity, with murder, robbery under arms, arson, and an appalling list of subsidiary crimes.

I understand, been not infrequently robbed in the past whilst in conclave, and so long as those of Turland, Renigard and The Doldrums are at large you may expect the robberies to continue indefinitely.

The Ebbling pearls had been returned and crime had apparently met its master, in the person of a cloaked fighter whose entry upon the scene had marked the end of robbery.

Buried in the stories was the fact that the total number of robberies in Dade has actually increased, meaning the thugs are merely redirecting their felonious energies toward local residents.

I was much pleased, for I had been afraid that the women had gone out to get assistance and to have us arrested, and the robbery of our provisions reassured me, as I felt certain that the poor wretches had gone out of the way so as to secure impunity for their theft.