What's the difference between plunder and robber?

Plunder


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.
  • (v. t.) To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found.
  • (n.) The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage.
  • (n.) That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.
  • (n.) Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Serb teed up Steve Davis, who crossed low for Graziano Pellè to plunder his fifth league goal of the campaign.
  • (2) Scott's ambitious design for the hotel and station clearly plundered the architectural treasuries of medieval Europe.
  • (3) read one banner, against the woman whose family is reviled for taking tasty slices of state business and contracts, and plundering Tunisia's wealth.
  • (4) But as more end up empty-handed and black market prices soar, plundering is rising in Venezuela , an Opec nation that was already one of the world’s most violent countries.
  • (5) The French are no longer colonisers, or imperialists, or even plundering racists.
  • (6) The majority of these children come from Guatemala , Honduras and El Salvador – three of the many countries ravaged by civil strife, drug wars and economic turmoil precipitated by US political and military intervention over several decades, as well as free-trade regimes and the corporate plunder of Latin America's natural resources.
  • (7) Most newspapers were excoriating, for instance, about the failure of the City's self-regulating bodies to blow the whistle on Robert Maxwell's plunder of the Mirror pension fund .
  • (8) Kiir has accused government officials of plundering at least $4bn (£2.6bn) from state coffers over seven years.
  • (9) For every cinephile that delights in Quentin Tarantino's penchant for opulent dialogue and magpie film-historian's eye, there's another who sees the US director of Reservoir Dogs , Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies as a garish charlatan who survives on a habit of plundering the past.
  • (10) It was like a bomb went off in the room.” Arrest the thieves and embezzlers who are plundering Iraq | Letters Read more Abadi has placed much of his political stock on his reform drive, which he sees as essential to holding the country together.
  • (11) Mila D Aguilar , 67, poet, Quezon City Facebook Twitter Pinterest Krip Yuson ‘Many Filipinos still bear the scars of his plundering’ He should definitely not have been buried in the LNMB.
  • (12) With billions of dollars worth of assets of Muammar Gaddafi frozen by the UN and member countries, and other legal moves to recover the wealth of deposed autocrats such as Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, the drive to seize billions plundered by corrupt leaders has never been higher.
  • (13) Yet Joe Ledley’s handball might have earned United a penalty of their own after the interval before Ibrahimovic plundered the winner the visitors’ dominance merited .
  • (14) Damien Duff was sharp and Robbie Keane looked in the mood to plunder.
  • (15) In the past few years they had seen Ben Ali and his family and friends become extremely rich by plundering the nation.
  • (16) City were ahead again before half-time, Santa Cruz dummying over Shaun Wright-Phillips' centre for Bellamy to plunder the goal he so richly deserved, but three is not enough to guarantee City victory these days, and Kenwyne Jones, on as substitute, headed in from four yards to get Wearside's barmy army crowing with glee.
  • (17) Field’s parliamentary investigation concluded that BHS had been systematically plundered.
  • (18) The National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden used inexpensive and widely available software to plunder the agency’s networks, it has been reported, raising further questions about why he was not detected.
  • (19) For my part – plundering singles by Artful Dodger, by Semisonic – I have a memory of actually looking over my shoulder.
  • (20) The question is, why haven't the moon's resources been thoroughly plundered by now?

Robber


Definition:

  • (n.) One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe they have military training but only certain people would have the balls – the audacity – to pull off something like that.” Another former robber said the stolen goods would already be at their destination.
  • (2) And as someone who spent a lot of time with their grandmother, it seemed only natural that bank robbers would meet their match in a benevolent pensioner.
  • (3) "The circumstances caused George to think he might be a robber or do something bad because of what had gone on," she said, referring to a recent series of burglaries in the development.
  • (4) The outcry over the incident – and over a police attempt to portray Becerra as a suspected armed robber – led to graffiti protests across the city as well as the arrest of two police officers.
  • (5) Another hero of the punk era, Mick Jones of the Clash, who co-wrote My Daddy was a Bank Robber, was also present but the music was left to the choir and the Alabama Three who sang Too Sick to Pray.
  • (6) Later still, the local police chief was removed as primary responder, but he still managed to muddy the waters (which the Brown family calls character assassination) by first releasing video of a black robber and then admitting it had nothing to do with Brown's shooting.
  • (7) At Christmas 1964, he was joined in Mexico by his fellow train robbers Buster Edwards, who had not yet been caught, and Charlie Wilson, who had escaped from Winson Green prison.
  • (8) The Sun reported that a blade was held to her throat during the ordeal, while one of the robbers shouted: "If you don't tell us where the safe is we'll cut off your kids' fingers."
  • (9) In 1966 he was assessor to Lord Mountbatten during his inquiry into prison security – but he harboured a sneaking regard for Ronnie Biggs, the great train robber who escaped from Wandsworth jail in 1965, saying that his flight "added a rare and welcome touch of humour to the history of crime".
  • (10) He's looks like a very rich man who doesn't want to open his books – and that fits the robber baron frame.
  • (11) Many of the robbers have already died: Charlie Wilson was shot dead in the Spain in 1990; Buster Edwards killed himself in 1994; Roy James died in 1997; Jimmy Hussey died last year after supposedly making a deathbed confession that he was the gang member who coshed the train driver, Jack Mills, who died of leukaemia seven years later.
  • (12) He is suspected of being the robber who, disguised as a police officer, was the first one to force his way into the depot on the night of the heist.
  • (13) Whereas taking bags full of cash into financial institutions in Thailand will manifest in being offered a comfortable seat and a cup of tea.” One former armed robber from south London has his own theory as to why the theft has attracted such attention and speculation.
  • (14) And it is through this work that she came across one former robber… Graham Godden's childhood was grim in comparison to Malton's.
  • (15) Electronic fraudsters will replace the stocking and shotgun robbers of the past.
  • (16) There were a lot of young men on the streets who were mainly out to play cops and robbers with the police.
  • (17) The prosecutor said that the struggle ensued after Wilson realised that Brown matched a description broadcast over police radio moments earlier for a grocery store robber.
  • (18) "But really what we're looking for is the fragments that the ancient tomb robbers left to us."
  • (19) But it was, perhaps, the 30-year sentences the robbers received that played a major part in creating the myths around them.
  • (20) Activists dressed up as highway robbers carried banners saying: "The Great British Royal Mail Robbery".