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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Robbery \Rob"ber*y\, noun; pl. {Robberies}. [OF. roberie.]
1. The act or practice of robbing; theft.
Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves. --Shak.
2. (Law) The crime of robbing. See {Rob}, verb (used with an object), 2.
Note: Robbery, in a strict sense, differs from theft, as it is effected by force or intimidation, whereas theft is committed by stealth, or privately.
Syn: Theft; depredation; spoliation; despoliation; despoilment; plunder; pillage; rapine; larceny; freebooting; piracy.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
robbery
noun
1: larceny by threat of violence
2: plundering during riots or in wartime [syn: {looting}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "robbery": armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry, bank robbery, bereavement, breaking and entering, burglary, burgling, caper, cattle lifting, cattle stealing, cost, damage, dead loss, debit, denial, denudation, depredation, deprivation, despoilment, destruction, detriment, dispossession, divestment, expense, extortion, filch, forfeit, forfeiture, grab, heist, highway robbery, hijack, hijacking, hold-up, holdup, injury, job, larceny, lift, looting, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, mugging, perdition, pilferage, pilfering, pillage, pillaging, pinch, pinching, plunder, plundering, pocket picking, privation, purse snatching, ransacking, rip-off, robbing, ruin, sack, sacking, sacrifice, spoliation, steal, stealing, stickup, stickup job, stripping, taking away, theft, thievery, thieving, total loss
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Robbery Practised by the Ishmaelites (Gen. 16:12), the Chaldeans and Sabeans (Job 1:15, 17), and the men of Shechem (Judg. 9:25. See also 1 Sam. 27:6-10; 30; Hos. 4:2; 6:9). Robbers infested Judea in our Lord's time (Luke 10:30; John 18:40; Acts 5:36, 37; 21:38; 2 Cor. 11:26). The words of the Authorized Version, "counted it not robbery to be equal," etc. (Phil. 2:6, 7), are better rendered in the Revised Version, "counted it not a prize to be on an equality," etc., i.e., "did not look upon equality with God as a prize which must not slip from his grasp" = "did not cling with avidity to the prerogatives of his divine majesty; did not ambitiously display his equality with God." "Robbers of churches" should be rendered, as in the Revised Version, "of temples." In the temple at Ephesus there was a great treasure-chamber, and as all that was laid up there was under the guardianship of the goddess Diana, to steal from such a place would be sacrilege (Acts 19:37).
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