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robbery English

Meaning robbery meaning

What does robbery mean?
Definitions in simple English

robbery

To take money or property without permission, sometimes with violence. The police were called because there had been a bank robbery.

robbery

larceny by threat of violence (= looting) plundering during riots or in wartime

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Topics robbery topics

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Simple sentences

Bank robbery will cost you ten years in prison.
The boy is capable of robbery.
Murder and robbery are criminal acts.
He has something to do with the robbery.
He was arrested as an accessory to the robbery.
He was sent to jail for the robbery.
He was in prison on a charge of robbery.
The gang was planning a robbery.
Tom did time for armed robbery.
Hands up! This is a robbery.
We have to consider the possibility that Tom was involved in the robbery.
Tom had nothing to do with the robbery.
He was thrown in prison for robbery.
Police are seeking witnesses to the armed robbery of a fast food outlet at 11 o'clock last night.
The thieves knocked off another bank today in a daytime robbery.
The police arrested a suspect in connection with the robbery.
He was sent to prison for armed robbery.
A little, old woman foiled the robbery by whacking the thief on the head with her cane.
Tell me how the robbery went down.

Movie subtitles

Mr. Hammer, whoever drew this knows something about that robbery.
Did you read about that big robbery at the booze warehouse?
But why talk about robbery on a night like this? You look beautiful.
I. robbery and murder eh? well you didn't get away with it.
I can get a conviction, too, for first-degree robbery.
Perhaps it was a robbery.
The most sensational jewel robbery of a decade the disappearance of a two-million franc string of pearls from Duvalle and Company, the famous jewellers, still goes unsolved.
It's about yesterday's jewel robbery.
How about that bank robbery in Oldtown?
What about that bank robbery?
This robbery has been carefully planned over months, even years by a master criminal.
You just don't have to like them to find yourself accused and convicted of riot, arson and armed robbery.
I should've committed robbery to get that tax money for you.
It's highway robbery.
It is believed to be a robbery.
Robbery!
Did you hear about the jewel robbery at the ball last night?
They've heard about the robbery and panicked.
Street robbery on three counts.
There is nothing behind it but robbery.
But why talk about robbery on a night like this?
Come tell me If you see anyone from the robbery. Yes, Sir.
It's robbery.
With this information this robbery was busted and the perpetrators were caught red-handed.
I didn't believe you until you asked Stephen to defend you for robbery.
THERE'S BEEN SOME SORT OF A ROBBERY, APPARENTLY.
GUERCHARD WAS SENT HERE TO SEE THAT NO ROBBERY WAS COMMITTED.
AND WHILE HE WAS DETAINED, A ROBBERY WAS COMMITTED?
That man is connected with the robbery at the morgue.
The Police Ohief had some deciphered plans for a bank robbery sent to him a couple days ago. lsn't that so?

News and current affairs

Unemployed urban youth and ethnic militias are driving an upsurge of armed robbery and political violence in such cities as Lagos and Warri in the south, and Kaduna and Kano in the north.
Clearly, Putin wants to end this robbery of state assets, and minority shareholders are up in arms, but the insatiable Abramovich wants Gazprom, and Voloshin yearns to become its next CEO.
Instead, they are facing a variety of criminal charges, including murder with a firearm, bank robbery, and the bombing of police stations.
On December 15, 1967, Yanukovych (then 17 years old) was sentenced to three years in prison for robbery and sexual assault.
Two key documents used to overturn his conviction for rape and robbery had been forged. Moreover, the signature of the judge in his case was also forged.
It is this narrow, black-and-white view of humanity that has perpetuated a cycle of violence in Cambodia, where raging mobs beat to death robbery suspects and young mistresses suffer acid attacks by jealous wives.
Two key documents used to overturn his conviction for rape and robbery had been forged.

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