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train robbery

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meanings of trainand robbery


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train
noun
uk /treɪn/ us /treɪn/
a railway engine connected to carriages for carrying people or to wheeled containers for ...
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robbery
noun[C or U]
uk /ˈrɒb.ər.i/ us /ˈrɑː.bɚ.i/
the crime of stealing from somewhere ...
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Examples of train robbery


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The great trainrobbery was perfectly normal, but it was a rather bigger than normal robbery.
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My noble friend raised the question of the trainrobbery and lessons to be learned from it.
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What concerns me is that that coincides with another event of 1963, namely the great trainrobbery.
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Will they get their rights if they sell their story of, say, a trainrobbery?
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It is like having a trainrobbery every week.
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I think that the sequel to the mail trainrobbery would have been a bullion trainrobbery.
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The public has been exercised in recent months by the great trainrobbery.
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I think that the mail trainrobbery aspect of this problem is slightly irrelevant.
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I am aware that the mail trainrobbery was thought to be the last word in ingenuity.
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The trainrobbery sentences have to some extent disturbed the whole hierarchy of sentences.
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It is questionable whether the men who are now serving their 30 year sentence for the trainrobbery will have to serve 30 years.
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Some of the loot from dishonest activities there makes the great trainrobbery seem like minor pickpocketing.
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I had my attention drawn to these matters by the wage snatches of anything up to £250,000 this summer and by the great trainrobbery.
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Is not that the biggest steal since the great trainrobbery?
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Some of the cases of fraud of defalcation make robberies like the mail trainrobbery seem like peanuts, but they do not get the same publicity.
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In the case of the trainrobbery, which is a national crime of tremendous importance, is it fair that the county should be expected to bear the very high costs?
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The great trainrobbery, the bullion robbery, these are just the tip of the thing; it also operates on a small scale all down the line.
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It is a sad reflection that he has now so completely changed sides and has embarked against the citizenry of this country in a great trainrobbery of his own.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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