Usually means: Deliberate setting of fire illegally.
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  1. arson: Merriam-Webster
  2. arson: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. arson: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. arson: Collins English Dictionary
  5. arson: Vocabulary.com
  6. Arson, arson: Wordnik
  7. arson: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. arson: Wiktionary
  9. arson: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. arson: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. arson: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. arson: Dictionary.com
  13. arson: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. arson: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Arson (disambiguation), Arson: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Arson: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. arson: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. arson: Rhymezone
  19. arson: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. arson: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. arson: FreeDictionary.org
  22. arson: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. arson: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. arson: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. arson: Merriam-Webster

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. arson: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. arson: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. arson: 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. arson: Legal dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. arson: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. arson: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. arson: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly India) To illegally set fire to; to burn down in a criminal manner.
noun:  (obsolete) A saddlebow.

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