Usually means: Failure to fulfill a commitment.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word breach of promise:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. breach of promise: Merriam-Webster
  2. breach of promise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. breach of promise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. breach of promise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. breach of promise: Vocabulary.com
  6. breach of promise: Wordnik
  7. breach of promise: Wiktionary
  8. breach of promise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. breach of promise: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Breach of promise, breach of promise: Dictionary.com
  11. Breach of promise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. breach of promise: Rhymezone
  13. breach of promise: FreeDictionary.org
  14. breach of promise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. breach of promise: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. breach of promise: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Breach-of-promise, breach of promise: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Breach-of-promise, breach of promise: Encyclopedia

(Note: See breach_of_promises as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (breach of promise)

noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see breach, promise.
noun:  (law) A tort in common law arising when a man withdraws an earlier promise to marry a woman; abolished in many jurisdictions.

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