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Pos: Noun Phrase
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun highway robbery has 2 senses

1.  highway robbery(n = noun.possession) Array - an exorbitant price; "what they are asking for gas these days is highway robbery"
is a kind of
damage, price, terms

2.  highway robbery(n = noun.act) Array - robbery of travellers on or near a public road; Array
is a kind of
robbery


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

highway robbery, n.

1.  Robbery committed on the public roads. [PJC]

2.  An excessively high price or fee; -- used especially in situations where the buyer has little or no choice but to buy the item offered. [PJC]


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Stealing

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.


[RELATED WORDS]

armed robbery, divided highway, highway, highway code, highway engineer, highway system, interstate highway, robbery, robbery conviction, robbery suspect, state highway