a person who steals from a person or place, especially using violence or threats强盗；盗贼；抢劫犯 see also grave robberExtra Examples- Police are hunting a masked robber who snatched £15 000 from a post office.警方正在搜捕一个从邮局抢了1.5 万英镑的蒙面强盗。
- Robbers escaped with $30 000.盗贼拿着 3 万美元逃跑了。
- Robbers held up a bank at gunpoint.强盗持枪抢劫了一家银行。
- The would-be robber fled empty-handed.这个准备抢劫的人空着手逃掉了。
- The prison sentence ended his career as a bank robber.被判入狱终结了他银行抢劫犯的职业生涯。
- an armed robber持械抢劫犯
Topics Crime and punishmentb1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective… of robbersverb + robberrobber + verb- hold somebody/something up
- snatch something
- steal something
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See full entry Word OriginMiddle English: from Anglo-Norman French and Old French robere, from the verb rober, of Germanic origin.