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bandit

/ban-dit/US // ˈbæn dɪt //UK // (ˈbændɪt) //

匪徒,劫匪,盗匪,盗贼

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ban·dits or ban·dit·ti [ban-dit-ee]. /bænˈdɪt i/.

    • : a robber, especially a member of a gang or marauding band.
    • : an outlaw or highwayman.
    • : Informal. a person who takes unfair advantage of others, as a merchant who overcharges; swindler; cheat. a vendor, cab driver, etc., who operates a business or works without a required license or permit, and without observing the usual rules or practices.
    • : Military Informal. an enemy aircraft, especially an attacking fighter.

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Examples

  • These campaigns can also result in consultants and vendors “making out like bandits,” Krumholz told me.

  • In 2016, a year when bandits made off with more than 1,500 hives, a fellow apiculturist called the cops after spotting Olivarez’s branding on boxes that had appeared suddenly four counties south of his usual stomping grounds.

  • If there’s a theme to Navalny’s oeuvre, it is that Russia’s modern kleptocracy is the offspring of an unholy matrimony between former mid-level KGB officers and a post-Soviet nomenklatura of bandits in business suits.

  • Women Are at the Forefront of Nigeria’s Police Brutality ProtestsMidenda says that SARS did have some early successes in capturing armed bandits.

  • Some of those improvements were driven by Bloomberg Media’s use of ABBA, as well as a multi-armed bandit method, which optimizes between multiple choices in real time, to optimize campaigns in shorter timeframes.

  • She stormed off next door, where the business owner tried to chase Wislon off before the bandit squeezed off a round.

  • One bandit came in the night to rob the couple, and shot at his wife when she exited the house.

  • I had my first taste of Tetra Pak wine from a neon green package labeled “Bandit” a couple of years ago.

  • After all, who has made out like a bandit since the 2008 economic collapse?

  • A bandit tried to rob them, and they shot and killed him and went back to work Monday morning as if nothing had happened.

  • He lived for some time as a bandit, robbing the subjects of the King of Gath, who had given him shelter.

  • Five years of warfare and its sequence—the bandit community—had devastated the provinces.

  • They had no doubts that if the bandit was still in the cave, the three men would find him and bring him back to face justice.

  • She had come to the part in their escape when she stopped and fired at the bandit when Janet voiced her opinion.

  • Clovis made himself master of the city through the treason of Saint Remy, who baptized that crowned bandit at Rheims.