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Meaning robber meaning

What does robber mean?

Definitions in simple English

robber Noun

— A robber is a person who takes money or property without permission, sometimes using violence. A thief; a person who steals. The bank robber took all the money from the bank.

robber

— noun a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence

Synonyms robber synonyms

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robber English » English

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Topics robber topics

What do people use robber to talk about?

Work and occupation Finance Dishonest financial practices

Steal

What words refer to a person who steals?

bandit burglar cutpurse embezzler gangster highwayman hijacker kleptomaniac mugger pickpocket pilferer pirate plunderer purse-snatcher robber bank robber train robber shoplifter stealer thief jewel thief

Examples robber examples

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Simple sentences

The robber ran away when the policeman saw him.

The robber emerged from the darkness.

The robber tried to plunge the knife into the boy.

The robber stood surrounded by ten policemen.

The robber escaped being punished.

The escaped robber is still at large.

They are pursuing the robber.

My father struggled with the robber.

The policeman grabbed the robber's arm.

Suddenly a robber stepped out of the darkness.

The robber bashed her head in.

The robber aimed his gun at the police officer.

The robber was nabbed this morning.

Did you get a good look at the robber?

At least the robber was civil to us.

The robber was never apprehended.

I'm sure the police will catch the robber eventually.

Movie subtitles

The murderer and robber left behind him sufficient evidence for the police however, in a photograph found in a wallet near the victim. An early arrest.

Who are you after, a bank robber?

Kringelein, you old robber, you're hopeless.

That robber of the dead?

And how are you, you old robber?

A robber-thief!

If you're a robber you'll get nothing from me.

What can a Saxon hedge-robber know of charm? Or ladies?

Me? A hedge-robber?

Okay, robber.

Grave robber!

The train robber.

The belly robber keeps everything locked.

You think he's a bank robber, or a gangster maybe?

Robber!

What can a Saxon hedge-robber know of charm?

A hedge-robber?

The man practically admitted he was a safe-robber.

If I live 500 years ago, I guess I be a baron maybe, a robber baron.

I think so. It must have been a robber.

Woman, you're a robber.

Willie, you old dog-robber, how'd you fix it?

He was a famous robber.

He was a bank robber.

Kind of high and mighty, ain't ya, for a grave robber?

I thought maybe that robber, Brian MacLean, was here first and took you off.

Robbins is no robber.

Did you catch the robber?

Your Excellency is to be congratulated. The robber left untouched your most priceless possession. - What?

News and current affairs

We began the battle against entrenched corruption, imposed the rule of law on Ukraine's robber barons, and encouraged the birth of a vital civil society.

Russia's robber-baron capitalism lacks the kind of effective regulation that creates trust in market relationships.

The United States, too, went though a period of robber-baron industrialization in the 1870's and 1880's.

My homeland has become a place where too many people are victims, succumbing to a virus, or gunned down by a drug-trafficker; assaulted by a robber, shot by an ill-trained policeman, or kidnapped by a member of a criminal gang.

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