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PRONUNCIATION OF HIGHWAY ROBBERY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HIGHWAY ROBBERY

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Highway robbery is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HIGHWAY ROBBERY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

highway robbery

Highwayman

A highwayman was a thief and brigand who preyed on travellers. This type of outlaw usually travelled and robbed by horse, as compared to a footpad who travelled and robbed on foot. Mounted robbers were widely considered to be socially superior to footpads. Such robbers operated in Great Britain and Australia from the Elizabethan era until the early 19th century. The word highwayman is first known to be used in the year 1617; other euphemisms included "knights of the road" and "gentlemen of the road". In the 19th-century American West, highwaymen were known as road agents. In the same time period in Australia, they were known as bushrangers.

Definition of highway robbery in the English dictionary

The definition of highway robbery in the dictionary is blatant overcharging.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HIGHWAY ROBBERY

highly strung
highly trained
highman
highmost
highness
highroad
Highsmith
hight
hightail
highting
hightop
highveld
highway
Highway Code
highway patrol
highwayman
highwaymen
Highways Department
highways engineer
highwrought

WORDS THAT END LIKE HIGHWAY ROBBERY

aggravated robbery
armed robbery
bank robbery
bibbery
blubbery
bobbery
bribery
cobwebbery
daylight robbery
fibbery
glibbery
inverted snobbery
jobbery
robbery
rubbery
shrubbery
slabbery
slobbery
snobbery
stockjobbery
yobbery

Synonyms and antonyms of highway robbery in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «highway robbery» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HIGHWAY ROBBERY

Find out the translation of highway robbery to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of highway robbery from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «highway robbery» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

拦路抢劫
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

robo de la carretera
570 millions of speakers

English

highway robbery
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

राजमार्ग डकैती
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قطع الطريق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

разбой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

um roubo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হাইওয়ে ডাকাতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

banditisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rompakan lebuh raya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Straßenraub
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

路上強盗
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

고속도로 강도
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rampokan jalan raya
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đường cao tốc cướp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நெடுஞ்சாலை கொள்ளை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

महामार्ग दरोडा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

otoban soygunu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rapina
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozbój
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розбій
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

jaf la drumul mare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ληστεία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

snelweg roof
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

highway rån
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

highway ran
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of highway robbery

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HIGHWAY ROBBERY»

The term «highway robbery» is normally little used and occupies the 125.275 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HIGHWAY ROBBERY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «highway robbery» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «highway robbery» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about highway robbery

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIGHWAY ROBBERY»

Discover the use of highway robbery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to highway robbery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Highway Robbery
. . Stunningly illustrated and fast-paced, this story for younger readers brings to life the legend of the most famous highwayman of them - and his amazing horse.
Kate Thompson, Kate Thompson, 2009
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Electronic Highway Robbery: An Artist's Guide to Copyrights ...
A complete guide to copyright law as it applies to the current digital arts market describes recent, real-world cases that illustrate both legal and illegal copying and uses clear, non-technical language to answer essential questions.
Mary E. Carter, 1996
3
Highway Robbery
When a highway construction crew uncovers human remains, the subsequent investigation has everyone in town on the edge of their seats, including the environmentalists protesting the creation of the roadway and civil engineer Owen Allison, ...
John Billheimer, 2001
4
Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism & New Routes to Equity
Highway Robbery weighs in a half-century after the landmark US Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decision overturned Plessy and outlawed "separate but equal" in 1954. Unfortunately, decades of court rulings and civil rights laws ...
Robert Doyle Bullard, Glenn Steve Johnson, Angel O. Torres, 2004
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Stand and Deliver!: A History of Highway Robbery
Informative, stimulating, and entertaining, from the pen of a true enthusiast, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the dramatic, murky underworld of history.
David Brandon, 2010
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Australian Colonies: Convict Discipline and Transportation : ...
Highway robbery - Ditto ~ - Forgery - - - “ Nelson ” robbery - Assault and robbery - Ditto - - Wounding a horse - Assault with intent to rob and murder. Shooting with intent - Assault with intent to rob. Robbery - ~ Assault with intent to rob. Highway ...
Great Britain. Colonial Office, 1857
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Reports of Cases Determined in the Court of Nizamut Adawlut ...
Two prisoners convicted of highway-robbery and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. Appeal rejected, ... ... 226 4. Five prisoners convicted of highway- robbery attended with severe wounding, and sentenced by the sessions judge to  ...
Bengal (India). Sadr nizāmat 'adālat, J. Carrau, 1855
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The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth ...
9d. and escaped servitude in Philadelphia; or Robert Lake, a journeyman Bishopsgate butcher, who made three voyages to India and, when found guilty of highway robbery, 'insolently turned about and put on his hat uttering some taunting ...
Peter Linebaugh, 2003
9
Highway Robbery
When the world's greatest thief causes a national emergency by stealing Interstate 80, Maya and Ben, the young ACME detectives, set out to track her down.
Bonnie Bader, Tracey West, 1997
10
Highway Robbery
A story for young readers, with black and white drawings by Dylan Horrocks.
Joy Watson, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HIGHWAY ROBBERY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term highway robbery is used in the context of the following news items.
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John Flynn: How would new 20mph limits really work? | Nottingham …
Sometimes it just seems like good old-fashioned highway robbery. At one time, there were national speed limits (such as 30mph in a built-up ... «Nottingham Post, Jul 15»
2
Lancers did a lot of right things other teams should try
Their escalating insurance premiums topped the list. It was highway robbery, or as Lancers owner Salvatore "Soccer Sam" Fantauzzo calls the ... «Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Jul 15»
3
New T-Mobile Family Plan Promo Offers 4 Lines With 10GB Of Data …
I couldn't even believe it and I kept on telling him to try another carrier like T-Mobile or something because that was highway robbery. Hell, the ... «Android Police, Jul 15»
4
New Plymouth man a victim of highway robbery in Spain | Stuff.co.nz
New Plymouth's Trevor Burrell wants to warn others after he fell victim to highway robbers while on holiday in Spain this month. A Kiwi family ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
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From honey trap to highway robbery: 'All-women bandit gang' that …
Bangalore: This gang of five women is probably the state's first all-women gang of highway dacoits. First they would lay a honey rape for the ... «Daily Bhaskar, Jul 15»
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Scorecard: Keith Thurman shows resilience in win over Luis Collazo
... in his two other bouts: a majority decision loss to world champion Danny Garcia and an outright highway robbery against Jose Benavidez. «ESPN, Jul 15»
7
(Not So) Bold Prediction: Jazz will Make the Playoffs In 2016
Their cap sheet is clean moving forward, and Gobert at his current price is highway robbery until he hits the restricted free agent (non-existent, ... «Today's Fastbreak, Jul 15»
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Two highway robbers nabbed
Superintendent Seidu said barely three hours after the highway robbery, the two men were arrested at the Kporvi Barrier, near Tsito, carrying ... «GhanaWeb, Jul 15»
9
Late charge lands Leinster title
It wasn't quite highway robbery, but some slight of hand was incorporated as Kilkenny nicked the Leinster minor hurling silverware right at the ... «Kilkenny People, Jul 15»
10
The unfortunate Irish exiled to Australia
A lot of the cases you see range from arson and highway robbery to membership of Irish revolutionary organisations involved in rebellions ... «IrishCentral, Jul 15»

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