theft
He has twice been convicted of robbery.
Have they any evidence to implicate him in the robbery?他们有证据表明他涉嫌抢劫案吗？
He served four years in prison for robbery.他因抢劫坐了4年牢。
The robbery had been recorded on a concealed security camera.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stealing
abscond
abscond with someone/something
aggravated burglary
anti-burglar
anti-burglary
eavesdrop
hot-wire
housebreaking
jemmy
jimmy
job
piratically
plunder
poach
poaching
porch piracy
rustle
rustling
snaffle
snitch

robbery | Business English

robbery
noun[ C or U ]
 LAWuk /ˈrɒbəri/uspluralrobberies
the crime of stealing from somewhere or someone:
He committed several robberies.
a bank robbery

Examples of robbery

robbery
While local people recognised that such brutality was undesirable, in the context of rampant armed robbery and police corruption, it was better than the alternatives.
As a result of the introduction of community policing, fear of crime (especially armed robbery) fell from 68% to 48%.
Most of the material came from skeletonized mummies, which had been damaged by grave robberies so that the skeletal elements were identifiable.
They were particularly agitated by high incidence of armed robbery in their towns of residence.
The robberies reported in our sample week were, moreover, not confined to the roads alone.
A study of witnesses' emotional reactions and memories associated with bank robberies.
Examples of aggravated larceny included highway robbery, burglary, attacks by footpads and piracy.
In addition to armed robbery, these gangs ran protection rackets, extorting money from business people and traders as well as attacking their customers.
Willingness to fight, robbery, and rule breaking display qualities such as physical strength, bravery, and willingness to incur risks.
They began to do highway robberies and live in bands either in the mountains or took possession of villages.
The rural population was already living in a society where administrative chaos was a minor inconvenience compared to robbery and general lawlessness.
It could be more lucrative to subsist by robbery than to seek work.
Yet the new codes coincided with ongoing insecurity and a sharp increase in reported robberies.
Fights, robbery, public drinking, gang violence, and other disruptive events are common in these neighborhoods.
They spoke to the janitor, the cops, about that robbery yesterday.
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