banditry – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
banditry
n.
work of bandits or outlaws
Banditry
Banditry is the life and practice of
bandits. The
New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (NED) defined "bandit" in 1885 as "one who is proscribed or
outlawed; hence, a lawless desperate marauder, a
brigand: usually applied to members of the organized gangs which infest the mountainous districts of Italy, Sicily, Spain, Greece, Iran, and Turkey". In modern usage the word may become a synonym for "theif", hence the term "
one-armed bandit" for gambling machines that can leave the gambler with no money.
banditry
Noun
1. the practice of plundering in gangs
(hypernym) plundering, pillage, pillaging
banditry
Synonyms and related words:
armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, bank robbery, brigandage, brigandism, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, direption, extortion, foraging, foray, freebooting, heist, highway robbery, hijacking, holdup, looting, marauding, mugging, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, pocket picking, purse snatching, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, robbery, robbing, sack, sacking, spoiling, spoliation, stickup, stickup job
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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