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# robbery

«robbery» in Mova's school dictionary: **The crime of stealing from a person or place, especially…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a robbery, robberies; robbery — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The crime of stealing from a person or place, especially using force or threats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robbery/#m1)

2) (informal) A price that is far too high: $10 for a drink is daylight robbery! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robbery/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In news and crime stories a robbery is a serious crime: a bank robbery, armed robbery. In UK and Irish everyday talk «daylight robbery» means a rip-off price. Robbery is worse than theft because it uses force or fear.

### examples

- There was a robbery at the corner shop last night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robbery/#x1)
- The bank robbery was on the news. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robbery/#x2)
- The thieves were jailed for armed robbery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robbery/#x3)
- Five pounds for a bottle of water? That's daylight robbery! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robbery/#x4)
- The detective solved the train robbery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robbery/#x5)
- Police are looking for witnesses to the robbery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robbery/#x6)
- In desperation, he ran to the city and went straight to the courthouse to report the robbery to the magistrate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robbery/#x7)

### note

Plural: robberies (y → ies). People rob a place or a person; they steal things (not «rob money» — you «steal money»).

### In the corpora

- [Dad calls it "daylight robbery".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/113-seasons-terms-and-holidays/10/)
- [For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.45/)
- [Trust not in oppression, and put not vain hope in robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart thereon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1015/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «robbery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robbery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.