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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun highway robbery has 2 senses

• highway robbery(n = noun.possession) Array - an exorbitant price; "what they are asking for gas these days is highway robbery"
is a kind of damage, price, terms

• highway robbery(n = noun.act) Array - robbery of travellers on or near a public road; Array
is a kind of robbery

CIDE DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

highway robbery

armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry, bank robbery, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, exploitation, extortion, heist, hijacking, holdup, loan-sharking, mugging, overassessment, overcharge, pocket picking, purse snatching, robbery, robbing, shylocking, stickup, stickup job, surcharge, usury

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highway robbery

Stealing

N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.

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