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Robbery vs Robbing - What's the difference?

robbery | robbing |

As nouns the difference between robbery and robbing

is that robbery is the act or practice of robbing while robbing is robbery.

As a verb robbing is

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robbery

English

Noun

(robberies)
  • The act or practice of robbing.
  • (legal) The offense of attempting to take the property of another by threat of force.

    • Hypernyms

    (attempt of taking the property of another by threat) larceny

    Hyponyms

    ; attempt of taking the property of another by threat * piracy, armed robbery, aggravated robbery, highway robbery, mugging, carjacking, extortion, stick-up (slang), blagging (slang), steaming (slang)

    Related terms

    * armed robbery * rob * robber * daylight robbery * strong-arm robbery

    robbing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • robbery
  • * 1985 , David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World (page 141)
    • Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.