Usually means: Act violating legally established norms.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word crime:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. crime: Merriam-Webster
  2. crime: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crime: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crime: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crime: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crime, crime: Wordnik
  7. crime: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. CRIME, crime: Wiktionary
  9. crime: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crime: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crime: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. crime: Dictionary.com
  13. crime: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. crime: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CRIME (security exploit), CRIME, Crime (band), Crime (disambiguation), Crime (genre), Crime (novel), Crime, The Crime (novel), The Crime: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Crime: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. crime: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. crime: Rhymezone
  19. crime, crime (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. crime: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. crime: FreeDictionary.org
  22. crime: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. crime: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. crime: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. crime: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. crime: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. crime: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. crime: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. The Crime, crime: Legal dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crime: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. crime: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. CRIME: Acronym Finder
  3. crime: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Crime (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. crime: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. C.R.I.M.E, Crime: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See crimeless as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.
noun:  (countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.
noun:  (uncountable) Criminal acts collectively.
noun:  (uncountable) The habit or practice of committing crimes.
verb:  (UK, military, transitive) To subject to disciplinary punishment.
verb:  (nonce word) To commit crime.
noun:  (computing) A particular security exploit against secret Web cookies over connections using the HTTPS and SPDY protocols that also use data compression. It relies on observing the change in size of the compressed ciphertext for various inputs.

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