1.  robbery(n = noun.act) - larceny by threat of violence;
is a kind of larceny, stealing, theft, thievery, thieving
has particulars: armed robbery, heist, holdup, stickup, caper, job, dacoity, dakoity, heist, rip-off, highjacking, hijacking, highway robbery, rolling
Derived form verb rob₁

2.  robbery(n = noun.act) looting - plundering during riots or in wartime;
is a kind of pillage, pillaging, plundering

1.  The act or practice of robbing; theft. [1913 Webster]
"Thieves for their robbery have authority
When judges steal themselves." [1913 Webster]

2.  The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2. [1913 Webster]
" Robbery, in a strict sense, differs from theft, as it is effected by force or intimidation, whereas theft is committed by stealth, or privately." [1913 Webster]

robbery, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a the act or process of robbing, esp. with force or threat of force. b an instance of this.
2 excessive financial demand or cost (set us back {pound}20 - it was sheer robbery).

Etymology:
ME f. OF roberie (as ROB)

N  stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.

armed robbery, highway robbery, robbery conviction, robbery suspect