Robbery

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rob=ber=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

Robbery, n. [OF. roberie.].

•  The act or practice of robbing; theft.  [1913 Webster]

  "Thieves for their robbery have authority
  When judges steal themselves."  [1913 Webster]
•  The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2.  [1913 Webster]

  " Robbery, in a strict sense, differs from theft, as it is effected by force or intimidation, whereas theft is committed by stealth, or privately."  [1913 Webster]

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

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Robbery, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a the act or process of robbing, esp. with force or threat of force. b an instance of this.
2 excessive financial demand or cost (set us back {pound}20 - it was sheer robbery).

Etymology

ME f. OF roberie (as ROB)

THESAURUS

Robbery

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Robbery

Stealing

N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.