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daylight robberies

daylight robberies is the plural of daylight robbery.

Meaning of daylight robbery

Noun

daylight robbery (countable and uncountable, plural daylight robberies)

  1. (UK, idiomatic, informal, uncountable) The practice of cheating or of imposing an exorbitant charge for a product or service; (countable, rare) an instance of this.
  2. (UK, idiomatic, informal, uncountable) Conduct which unfairly deprives an opponent of an advantage or a win; (countable, rare) an instance of this.
  3. (UK, idiomatic, informal) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see daylight, robbery.
    • A daylight robbery of a store carries with it a risk that the store clerk will be present and a confrontation will ensue, so grounds to fear a daylight robbery give rise to a reasonable inference that the defendant is armed and dangerous.2006, Sarah N. Welling, “Stop and Frisk”, in Paul Finkelman, editor, Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, volume 3, Routledge, published 2013, →ISBN, page 1570, column 1

Questions about daylight robberies

What is daylight robberies the plural of?
Daylight robberies is the plural of daylight robbery.

Words near daylight robberies in the dictionary

  1. daylight factories
  2. daylight factors
  3. daylight factory
  4. daylight overdraft
  5. daylight overdrafts
  6. daylight robberies
  7. daylight robbery
  8. daylight saving
  9. daylight saving time
  10. daylight saving times
  11. daylight savings

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