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loot

1. Any money or valuables that have been robbed or plundered from someone or something. Quick, let's get back to the hideout and divvy up the loot. Among the loot the bandits made off with were a pair of earrings worn by Queen Elizabeth the First.
2. A child's presents, as at Christmas or their birthday. Wow, look at all the loot under the Christmas tree! Get any good loot for your birthday?
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loot

1. n. stolen goods; stolen money. Where’s the loot? I want my piece.
2. n. money in general. It takes too much loot to eat at that restaurant.
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Speaking on Monday in Abuja at the inauguration of a Special Investigative Panel to probe the invasion and looting at the central warehouse of the Presidential Amnesty Programme Vocational Training Centre in Kaiama, Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Dokubo gave assurance that perpetrators of the nefarious act who also vandalised property at the training facility about three weeks ago, would be brought to justice.
He urged the CM, IG Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Chief Justice Peshawar High Court and other high ups to take notice of the situation and arrest the involved people in looting the public on the name of development with the fake NGO.
Following the surge of looting incidents, the city was placed under a state of calamity and the local government placed a 10 pm to 6 am curfew to avoid more incidents of thefts at commercial and business establishments.
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Maybe we need to follow the example of the people of Egypt and Tunisia and occupy every town square in the country till the looting stops and the criminals are brought to justice.
Earlier on Friday, Shehab and Gamet El-Dowal streets in Mohandesine district saw mass looting as stores, banks and exchanges were broken into and looted by thugs coming from neighboring districts.
In Coventry, the blitz of November 14 provided the biggest opportunity since the beginning of the war for looting. Within days of its destruction, Edward Crich, a Loughborough engineer, was sentenced to three months' hard labour after stealing a Georgian church register from the ruins of Coventry Cathedral.
The latter, by contrast, set off 25 hours of arson, looting, and chaos.
The key private figure involved in what Johnson calls the "looting of Asia" was the notorious Yoshio Kodama, a rich and fanatical ultra-nationalist with connections to both the underworld and some of Japan's most famous postwar political figures.
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Destruction and loss of cultural objects and historic architecture through looting, fighting and vandalism was followed by ideological destruction during the six-year regime of the Taliban.