robberies
USRAH-buh-reez/ˈɹɑbəɹiz/UKRO-buh-reez/ˈɹɒbəɹiz/
- 1Plural of robbery.
A string of bank robberies kept investigators busy all summer.
Most of the robberies happened late at night near the highway.
Note
A regular plural: the final -y becomes -ies, as with any noun ending in a consonant plus y. The plural counts separate incidents, each one an offense of taking property by force or threat of force, which is why it pairs naturally with words like spate or wave. Robbery as a general practice (robbery is a serious crime) is uncountable and takes no plural at all.
robberies is a form of robbery
robbery, noun: The crime of taking, or trying to take, another person's property by force or the threat of force. Full entry
- Forms
- robberyrobberies plural
- Spelling
- robbery → robberies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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