loot
掠夺,抢夺,劫掠,抢劫
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Definitions
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- : spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- : anything taken by dishonesty, force, stealth, etc.: a burglar's loot.
- : a collection of valued objects: The children shouted and laughed as they opened their Christmas loot.
- : Slang. money: You'll have a fine time spending all that loot.
- : the act of looting or plundering: to take part in the loot of a conquered city.
- : valuable items that can be claimed from a defeated enemy or cache: I was hoping for new armor, but this loot was pretty disappointing.
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- : to carry off or take as loot: to loot a nation's art treasures.
- : to despoil by taking loot; plunder or pillage, as in war: The invaders looted temples and shrines.
- : to rob, as by burglary or corrupt activity in public office: to loot the public treasury.
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Examples
SWSLA would stop Wall Street firms from looting businesses and destroying jobs for profit by forcing them to share liability and put workers first in the event of bankruptcy by providing for severance and pensions.
Just going back to coronavirus a little bit, to me and to folks like me, it was very frustrating to see a three- to five-week hiatus in coronavirus coverage when the country was being looted, ravaged and burned.
It’s all led to genuine rage against the system, which in several cases over the past year has culminated in a minority of protesters burning down buildings and looting businesses.
So, calling people names, assuming the worst in everybody, looting, burning stuff down, doesn’t help the healing process.
Throughout the 24-page indictment, the group appears to be referenced as “Non-Profit-1” in a scheme in which Bannon and his partners were allegedly looting a crowdsourced charity, We Build the Wall, for personal gain.
Botala remembers that the rebels would pull into the island, loot what they could, and then take the haul back to Stanleyville.
For years, William Schmidt single-handedly dug a tunnel through a mountain to transport his gold-rush loot.
Go and loot shops from business owners who were not part of the original problem whatsoever.
Sayyed, who never went to school, was one of the laborers hired by organized gangs to loot.
Then he pushed his loot outside and up the street towards his house.
The Christians who were unable to escape were either massacred or carried off as slaves into the interior, with the loot.