banditry
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7.9
- noun
- /ˈbændɪtri/
:
bandidaje
- The people of the countryside are often victims of banditry by organized gangs that rob travelers.
How do we get more intelligence and less banditry and stupidity in our society?
- How do we get more intelligence and less banditry and stupidity in our society?
- We will not let this kind of banditry, as he calls them, take over.
Examples
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Democracy, human rights, and private enterprise cannot flourish in the Great Lakes region under conditions of mayhem, banditry, and chronic political instability.
Academic text (2002) -
Political life in this prestate era was brutal: warfare, banditry, revolts, and religious and communal conflict were widespread.
Academic text (2010) -
We will not let this kind of banditry, as he calls them, take over.
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How do we get more intelligence and less banditry and stupidity in our society?
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Banditry, petty corruption, speculation in food supplies, and so forth.
Fiction book (1991) -
This was complicated by personal rivalries, banditry, and clans, which posed further obstacles to a coordinated struggle.
Academic text (2001) -
If people want to protest this kind of mismanagement, embezzlement, and broad-daylight government-sanctioned banditry, then let them.
Blog text (27) -
Banditry flourished best where inaccessibility, administrative inefficiency, and complication were the rule.
Academic text (1996) -
My article does not seek to engage in that discussion but rather to point out certain historical parallels with the preconditions leading to banditry in its various forms (rural and urban) and with some of the consequences of banditry.
Academic text (1996) -
The farmers' and slaves' revolts, regional dissidence, and banditry do not amount to a mere ritual of rebellion (in which Gluckman discerned integrationist virtues).
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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2.3
Stealing things from people and places such as shops and banks using force or threats
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3.2
Stealing from a person or place while using a weapon, usually a gun
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4.9
Stealing things from shops, often during a riot or disaster
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3.4
An attack in a public place to steal someone's money or things
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7.7
Taking things from places like shops during war or disaster
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9.9
Stealing from people in remote places using violence, often by groups of armed people
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7.3
An act of stealing from people travelling on a public road, often by force
Violent robbery by a gang of armed people, often in South Asia
A robbery by an armed gang, often in rural South Asia
Going around looking for things to steal or people to attack
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Banditry comes from bandit, a word that first meant someone 'banished' or put outside the law. A helpful way to remember it is to think of a band, a group that attacks and steals, so banditry is the practice of robbing people, often by organized gangs.