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highway robbery collapse: robbery of travellers on or near a public road; an exorbitant price; "what they are asking for gas these days is highway robbery"

profiteer collapse: someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply); make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods

clearing house collapse: a central collection place where banks exchange checks or drafts; participants maintain an account against which credits or debits are posted

trust company collapse: an organization (usually with a commercial bank) that is engaged as a trustee or fiduciary or agent in handling trust funds or estates of custodial arrangements or stock transfers or related services

advance collapse: increase in price or value; "the news caused a general advance on the stock market"; an amount paid before it is earned; rise in rate or price; "The stock market gained 24 points today"; develop further; "We are advancing technology every day"; bring forward for consideration or acceptance; "advance an argument"; move forward, also in the metaphorical sense; "Time marches on"; cause to move forward; "Can you move the car seat forward?"; move forward; "we have to advance clocks and watches when we travel eastward"; pay in advance; "Can you advance me some money?"

Mafia collapse: any tightly knit group of trusted associates; a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century; a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia

gambling collapse: the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize); "his gambling cost him a fortune"; "there was heavy play at the blackjack table"

fry collapse: English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907); English painter and art critic (1866-1934); cook on a hot surface using fat; "fry the pancakes"; be excessively hot; "If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried"

destroyer collapse: a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship; a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones"

whale collapse: any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head; hunt for whales

press agent collapse: someone employed to arrange publicity (for a firm or a public figure)

vandal collapse: someone who willfully destroys or defaces property; a member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455

poacher collapse: small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters; a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs); someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another

prowler collapse: someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions

statesman collapse: a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs

crimp collapse: a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled; someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers; curl tightly; "crimp hair"; make ridges into by pinching together

hyena collapse: doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion

teller collapse: an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money; an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly); United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003)

harpy collapse: large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America; any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes; (Greek mythology) vicious winged monster; often depicted as a bird with the head of a woman

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