HIGHWAY ROBBERY

Meaning of HIGHWAY ROBBERY in English

an extremely high price for something The price that we had to pay for the theater tickets was highway robbery.

English idioms vocab. Словарь английских идиом и выражений. 2012

HIGHWAY ROBBERY — noun Date: 1752 robbery committed on or near a public highway usually against travelers, excessive profit or advantage derived from …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
HIGHWAY ROBBERY — noun 1. : robbery committed on or near a public highway especially against travelers 2. : excessive profit or advantage …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HIGHWAY ROBBERY — — highway robber . 1. robbery committed on a highway against travelers, as by a highwayman. 2. Informal. a price …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HIGHWAY ROBBERY — n. extremely high price, fee that is irrationally high (Informal); robbery of a traveler carried out on a public highway …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
HIGHWAY ROBBERY — Date: 1752 1. : robbery committed on or near a public highway usually against travelers 2. : excessive profit or …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HIGHWAY ROBBERY — Function: noun Date: 1752 1 : robbery committed on or near a public highway usually against travelers 2 : excessive …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
HIGHWAY ROBBERY — [highway robbery] n (1778) 1: robbery committed on or near a public highway usu. against travelers 2: excessive profit or …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HIGHWAY ROBBERY — ( informal , especially NAmE ) = daylight robbery at daylight
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HIGHWAY ROBBERY — Synonyms and related words : armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry, bank robbery, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, exploitation, extortion, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
HIGHWAY ROBBERY — {n. phr.} 1. A hold-up of or theft from a person committed on an open road or street usually by …
Slang English vocab
HIGHWAY ROBBERY — {n. phr.} 1. A hold-up of or theft from a person committed on an open road or street usually by …
Словарь английских идиом
HIGHWAY ROBBERY — n. phr. 1. A hold-up of or theft from a person committed on an open road or street usually by …
American Idioms English vocabulary
HIGHWAY ROBBERY — истор. разбой на больших дорогах
Англо-Русский юридический словарь
HIGHWAY ROBBERY — n infml This sure is highway robbery — Это грабеж среди бела дня To someone from a hick town the prices of …
Новый Англо-Русский словарь современной разговорной лексики - Глазунов
HIGHWAY ROBBERY — n infml This sure is highway robbery — Это грабеж среди бела дня To someone from a hick town the …
Новый Англо-Русский словарь современной разговорной лексики
HIGHWAY ROBBERY — highway robbery n infml This sure is highway robbery Это грабеж среди бела дня To someone from a hick town …
Англо-Русский новый словарь современного неформального английского языка
HIGHWAY ROBBERY — This sure is highway robbery — Это грабеж среди бела дня To someone from a hick town the prices of …
Новый Англо-Русский словарь современного неформального английского
HIGHWAY ROBBERY — Грабеж средь бела дня! Пример: Five dollars for a loaf of bread! That's highway robbery! - Пять долларов за ломоть …
Англо-Русский словарь идиом
ROBBERY — raube, furte
English interlingue dictionary
ROBBERY — pangawat
English-Visayan vocabulary
ROBBERY — noun (plural -beries) Date: 13th century the act or practice of robbing
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
HIGHWAY — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Alaska Highway Alcan Highway Pan American Highway Trans Canada Highway
Английский словарь Британика
ROBBERY — ˈräb(ə)rē, -)ri noun ( -es ) Etymology: Middle English robberie, from Old French roberie, from rober to rob + -erie …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ROBBERY — noun the act or practice of robbing; theft. 2. robbery ·noun the crime of robbing. ·see rob, ·vt, 2.
Webster English vocab
HIGHWAY — highway BrE AmE ˈhaɪ weɪ ▷ highway|s z ▶ ˌ Highway ˈ Code BrE AmE
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
ROBBERY — / ˈrɒbəri; NAmE ˈrɑːb-/ noun [ U , C ] ( pl. -ies ) the crime of stealing money or …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HIGHWAY — / ˈhaɪweɪ; NAmE / noun 1. ( especially NAmE ) a main road for travelling long distances, especially one connecting …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ROBBERY — rob ‧ ber ‧ y /ˈrɒbəri $ ˈrɑː-/ BrE AmE noun ( plural robberies ) [uncountable and countable] the crime …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HIGHWAY — high ‧ way S3 /ˈhaɪweɪ/ BrE AmE noun [countable] 1 . especially American English a wide main road that joins …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ROBBERY — n. (pl. -ies) 1 a the act or process of robbing, esp. with force or threat of force. b an …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HIGHWAY — n. 1 a a public road. b a main route (by land or water). 2 a direct course of action …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
ROBBERY — n. (pl. -ies) 1 a the act or process of robbing, esp. with force or threat of force. b an …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HIGHWAY — n. 1 a a public road. b a main route (by land or water). 2 a direct course of action …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
ROBBERY — n. (pl. -ies) 1. a the act or process of robbing, esp. with force or threat of force. b an …
Oxford English vocab
HIGHWAY — n.1 a a public road. b a main route (by land or water). 2 a direct course of action (on …
Oxford English vocab
ROBBERY — ( robberies) Robbery is the crime of stealing money or property from a bank, shop, or vehicle, often by using …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HIGHWAY — ( highways) A highway is a main road, especially one that connects towns or cities. ( mainly AM ) I …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ROBBERY — (robberies) Robbery is the crime of stealing money or property from a bank, shop, or vehicle, often by using force …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
ROBBERY — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bank robber/robbery ▪ The bank robbers were never caught. armed robbery (= stealing using …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HIGHWAY — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES divided highway Highway Code highway patrol highways and byways (= the important and less important …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
ROBBERY — [noun]The gang admitted they had committed four recent bank robberies. [C]He is in prison for armed robbery. [U](UK and ANZ …
Cambridge English vocab
HIGHWAY — [noun] [C] US and ANZ, [UK] [formal] - a public road, esp. an important road that joins cities or towns …
Cambridge English vocab
HIGHWAY — n. Alaska Highway Alcan Highway Pan American Highway Trans Canada Highway
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
ROBBERY — Synonyms and related words : armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry, bank robbery, bereavement, breaking and entering, burglary, burgling, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
HIGHWAY
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
ROBBERY — See: HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
Slang English vocab
HIGHWAY — See: DIVIDED HIGHWAY or DUAL HIGHWAY.
Slang English vocab
ROBBERY — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ attempted , botched , bungled ( esp. BrE ), failed ▪ armed ▪ bank , highway , …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
HIGHWAY — noun (esp. AmE ) ADJECTIVE ▪ wide ▪ three-lane , two-lane , etc. ▪ a four-lane ~ ▪ divided ( …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
ROBBERY — See ↑ STEAL 6,7 ◆◆◆ • ↑ be daylight robbery
Longman Activator English vocab
ROBBERY — n. 25B6; noun they were arrested for the robbery : BURGLARY, theft, thievery, stealing, breaking and entering, housebreaking, larceny, shoplifting; …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
ROBBERY — n. robbing, theft, thievery, thieving, burglary, burgling, pilfering, pilferage, stealing, plundering, plunder, looting, sack, sacking, ransacking, depredation, pillage, pillaging, hijacking, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
ROBBERY — See: HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
Словарь английских идиом
HIGHWAY — See: DIVIDED HIGHWAY or DUAL HIGHWAY.
Словарь английских идиом
ROBBERY — Robbery has ever been one of the principal employments of the nomad tribes of the East. From the time of …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
ROBBERY — сущ. 1) кража; грабеж to commit (a) robbery ≈ совершить кражу, ограбление armed robbery ≈ вооруженное ограбление bank robbery ≈ …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HIGHWAY — сущ. 1) большая дорога, большак; шоссе, магистраль a divided highway ≈ двухполосная дорога с односторонним движением limited-access highway ≈ дорога …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
ROBBERY — robbery.ogg ʹrɒb(ə)rı n 1> грабёж, разбой highway robbery - грабёж на большой дороге armed robbery - вооружённый грабёж robbery with …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
HIGHWAY — highway.ogg ʹhaıweı n 1. 1> большая дорога; шоссе, автомагистраль, автострада belt /encircling/ highway - кольцевая автодорога King's hghway - автомагистраль …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
HIGHWAY — 1) автомобильная дорога; шоссейная дорога, шоссе; автомагистраль 2) (информационный) тракт; магистральная шина, магистраль ( данных ) 3) (меж)соединение, токопроводящая дорожка; …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
HIGHWAY — 1) автомобильная дорога; шоссейная дорога, шоссе; автомагистраль 2) (информационный) тракт; магистральная шина, магистраль (данных) 3) (меж)соединение, токопроводящая дорожка; шина 4) магистральный канал (передачи) • - …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
HIGHWAY — 1) автодорога; автомагистраль; большак 2) шоссе || шоссейный 3) магистраль; тракт • - CAMAC branch highway - CAMAC serial highway
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
ROBBERY — robbery сущ.1) кража; грабеж to commit (a) robbery — совершить кражу, ограбление armed robbery — вооруженное ограбление bank robbery — …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
ROBBERY — n 1> грабёж, разбой highway robbery - грабёж на большой дороге armed robbery - вооружённый грабёж robbery with violence - …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь

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