ROBBERIES Synonyms

• entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property

• the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else

• the act of stealing

• robbery at gunpoint

• commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling

• robbery at gunpoint

• the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time

• the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money

• a Jewish hero in the Old Testament who maintained his faith in God in spite of afflictions that tested him

• a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

• any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing

• a workplace; as in the expression `on the job'

• a book in the Old Testament containing Job's pleas to God about his afflictions and God's reply

• an object worked on; a result produced by working

• the responsibility to do something

• the performance of a piece of work

• a damaging piece of work

• a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

• (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit

• a crime (especially a robbery)

• profit privately from public office and official business

• arranged for contracted work to be done by others

• work occasionally

• invest at a risk

• the act of taking something from someone unlawfully

• assault with intent to rob

• the act of stealing small amounts or small articles

• goods or money obtained illegally

• the act of stealing valuable things from a place

• steal goods; take as spoils

• goods or money obtained illegally

• take illegally; of intellectual property

• plunder (a town) after capture

• steal goods; take as spoils

• destroy and strip of its possession

• a sudden short attack

• an attempt by speculators to defraud investors

• search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on

• enter someone else's territory and take spoils

• take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock

• search for something needed or desired

• a small fragment

• obscene terms for female genitals

• (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment

• a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion

• the act of catching an object with the hands

• to grasp hastily or eagerly

• to make grasping motions

• take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• deprive of by deceit

• the act of taking something from someone unlawfully