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daylight robbery

Syllables: day·light rob·beryUK/ˌdeɪlaɪt ˈɹɒb(ə)ɹi/US/ˌdeɪˌlaɪt ˈɹɑb(ə)ɹi/

daylight robbery noun: the practice of cheating or of imposing an exorbitant charge for a product or service; (countable, rare) an instance of this.

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

daylight robbery meaning in Tamil and Kannada

daylight robbery in Tamil

practice of cheating or of imposing an exorbitant charge for a product or service; an instance of this
பகற்கொள்ளை pakaṟkoḷḷai

daylight robbery in Kannada

ಹಗಲು ದರೋಡೆ, ಯಾವುದಕ್ಕಾದರೂ ಅತಿಯಾದ ಬೆಲೆ ತೆರುವುದು

Synonyms of daylight robbery

Forms of daylight robbery

pluraldaylight robberies

Origin of daylight robbery

From daylight + robbery, originally used literally to refer to robbery occurring in the daytime rather than at night, which was thought to be more audacious or risky.

Questions about daylight robbery

What does daylight robbery mean?
Daylight robbery means the practice of cheating or of imposing an exorbitant charge for a product or service; (countable, rare) an instance of this.
What is daylight robbery in Tamil?
Daylight robbery in Tamil is பகற்கொள்ளை (pakaṟkoḷḷai). See Daylight robbery meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is daylight robbery?
Daylight robbery is a noun.
How do you pronounce daylight robbery?
Daylight robbery is pronounced /ˌdeɪlaɪt ˈɹɒb(ə)ɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of daylight robbery?
The plural of daylight robbery is daylight robberies.

Words near daylight robbery in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: daylight robbery (page history and authors); daylight robbery (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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