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抢劫 — meaning in English

qiǎng jié

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English meaning

  • booty noun Valuable goods taken by force, especially loot seized in war or piracy.
  • robbery noun The crime of taking property from someone by force or threat.
  • steal verb To take something that belongs to someone else without permission or intention of returning it.

Senses

抢劫 is used for these senses in English:

  • daylight robbery (uncountable) The practice of cheating or of imposing an exorbitant charge for a product or service; (countable, rare) an instance of this.
  • rip-off (countable) A bad deal; an unfair or exorbitant price or rate.
  • robbery The act or practice of robbing.
  • steal The act of stealing.

booty — full definition

  1. noun Valuable goods taken by force, especially loot seized in war or piracy.
  2. noun Informal: the buttocks.

robbery — full definition

  1. noun The crime of taking property from someone by force or threat.
  2. noun An instance of being blatantly overcharged, used loosely and humorously.
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