- attempted robbery
- effort to rob or steal
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
attempted robbery
Look at other dictionaries:
robbery — rob|ber|y [ˈrɔbəri US ˈra: ] n plural robberies [U and C] the crime of stealing money or things from a bank, shop etc, especially using violence →↑theft, burglary ↑burglary ▪ Police are investigating a series of bank robberies in South Wales. ▪… … Dictionary of contemporary English
attempted — adjective Tried, with the connotation of failure. She is facing jail time for attempted robbery … Wiktionary
Attempted murder — Criminal law Part … Wikipedia
robbery — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ attempted, botched, bungled (esp. BrE), failed ▪ armed ▪ bank, highway, street (esp. BrE) … Collocations dictionary
attempted — at|tempt|ed [ ə temptəd ] adjective * used about things that someone tries to do but does not succeed in doing, especially things that are wrong or illegal: attempted murder/rape/robbery/suicide Leaders of the attempted coup were rounded up and… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
attempted */ — UK [əˈtemptɪd] / US [əˈtemptəd] adjective used about things that someone tries to do but does not succeed in doing, especially things that are wrong or illegal attempted murder/rape/robbery/suicide Leaders of the attempted coup were rounded up… … English dictionary
attempted — adj. Attempted is used with these nouns: ↑arson, ↑assassin, ↑assassination, ↑assault, ↑break in, ↑burglary, ↑coup, ↑escape, ↑extortion, ↑fraud, ↑manslaughter, ↑ … Collocations dictionary
Brinks robbery (1981) — The Brinks robbery of 1981 (October 20, 1981) was an armed robbery carried out by Black Liberation Army members Jeral Wayne Williams (aka Mutulu Shakur), Donald Weems (aka Kuwasi Balagoon), Samuel Smith and Nathaniel Burns (aka Sekou Odinga),… … Wikipedia
Norrmalmstorg robbery — The former Kreditbanken building at Norrmalmstorg 2005. The Norrmalmstorg robbery was a bank robbery and hostage crisis best known as the origin of the term Stockholm syndrome. It occurred at the Norrmalmstorg square in Stockholm, Swe … Wikipedia
Wham Paymaster Robbery — The Wham Paymaster Robbery was a little known robbery in the days of the American Old West. Although the Wham Paymaster Robbery is today one of the least known robberies of the Old West, it was nonetheless one of the most daring robberies of the… … Wikipedia
