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robbery

Syllables: rob·beryUK/ˈɹɒbəɹi//ˈɹɑbəɹi/

robbery noun: the act or practice of robbing.

Noun

robbery (countable and uncountable, plural robberies)

  1. The act or practice of robbing.
  2. (crime) The offense of taking or attempting to take the property of another by force or threat of force.
    • bank robbery

robbery meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

robbery in Hindi

act or practice of robbing
लूट lūṭ, डाका ḍākā
attempt of taking the property of another by threat
डाका ḍākā

robbery in Tamil

act or practice of robbing
கொள்ளை koḷḷai

robbery in Marathi

act or practice of robbing
दरोडा daroḍā, दरोडेखोरी daroḍekhorī

robbery in Urdu

robbery
ڈاکا ḍākā
More languagesFewer languages
robbery in Bengali
ডাকাতি ḍakati
robbery in Telugu
దోపిడి dōpiḍi
robbery in Malayalam
കൊള്ള koḷḷa
robbery in Kannada
ಸುಲಿಗೆ, ಸುಲಿಗೆಗಾರಿಕೆ, ಸುಲಿಹ, ಸುಲಿದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವಿಕೆ
robbery in Sanskrit
हिंसा hiṃsā
robbery in Arabic
سَرِقَة sariqa, لُصُوصِيَّة luṣūṣiyya
robbery in Malay
rompakan
robbery in Persian
دستبرد dastbord, سرقت serqat
robbery in Vietnamese
cướp giật

Examples of robbery in a sentence

  • The robbery was planned by the security guard: it was an inside job.
  • After the robbery, the police gave chase but didn't catch the suspect.
  • The restaurant’s drive-through window had a turntable of bulletproof glass designed to allow transactions while preventing robberies.

All 40 example sentences with robbery

Forms of robbery

pluralrobberies

Plural of robbery: robberies

Origin of robbery

From Middle English robberie, robry, roberie, from Old French roberie, from the verb rober (“to steal; to pillage”) + -ie. Ultimately from unattested Frankish *raubōn. By surface analysis, rob + -ery. Compare Dutch roverij (“robbery”), Norwegian Bokmål røveri (“robbery”), German Räuberei (“robbery, banditry”). Displaced native Old English rēaflāc.

Words formed from robbery

Questions about robbery

What does robbery mean?
Robbery means the act or practice of robbing.
What is robbery in Hindi?
Robbery in Hindi is लूट (lūṭ), डाका (ḍākā). See Robbery meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is robbery?
Robbery is a noun.
How do you pronounce robbery?
Robbery is pronounced /ˈɹɒbəɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of robbery?
The plural of robbery is robberies.

Words near robbery in the dictionary

  1. robberies
  2. robberish
  3. robberly
  4. robberproof
  5. robbers
  6. robbery
  7. robbest
  8. robbeth
  9. Robbi
  10. Robbie
  11. robbin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: robbery (page history and authors); ڈاکا (Urdu) (page history and authors); ডাকাতি (Bengali) (page history and authors); దోపిడి (Telugu) (page history and authors); robbery (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); हिंसा (Sanskrit) (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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