HIGHWAY ROBBERY

Meaning of HIGHWAY ROBBERY in English

— highway robber .

1. robbery committed on a highway against travelers, as by a highwayman.

2. Informal. a price or fee that is unreasonably high; exorbitant charge.

[ 1770-80 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 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 — 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 — an extremely high price for something The price that we had to pay for the theater tickets was highway robbery.
English Idioms vocab
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

Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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