Wiktionary:Word of the day/2022/February 28

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Word of the day
for February 28
daylight robbery n (idiomatic, informal)
  1. (uncountable) The practice of cheating or of imposing an exorbitant charge for a product or service; (countable, rare) an instance of this.
  2. (chiefly sports, uncountable) Conduct which unfairly deprives an opponent of an advantage or a win; (countable, rare) an instance of this.

Bruce Reynolds, the mastermind behind the Great Train Robbery of 1963 which resulted in the taking of some £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train, died on this day in 2013.

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