n
(obsolete, archaic) adultery
n
A highly prolific or skilled criminal; a criminal of the highest order.
n
Alternative form of avouterer [(obsolete) An adulterer.]
v
(transitive, intransitive) To treat or behave as a foe; be hostile towards.
n
Someone who engages in a boycott
n
Collusion or collaboration to nefarious ends.
n
(law) Any crime that is punishable by death.
n
Commonwealth of Nations spelling of capital offense.
n
A crime for which the maximum penalty is capital punishment.
n
A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.
adj
secretly acting together for a fraudulent or illegal purpose
n
(slang) A convicted criminal, a convict.
n
(obsolete) joint rivalry
n
(UK, Australia, informal) A criminal.
n
Alternative form of crim. con. [(law, colloquial, now historical) Criminal conversation.]
n
(law, colloquial, now historical) Criminal conversation.
n
(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
n
A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.
n
(law) Unlawful sexual intercourse with a married person; adultery; a common law tort arising from adultery, abolished in many jurisdictions.
n
(law) The area of law pertaining to crime and punishment.
n
(British spelling) A crime.
n
(law) (This entry is a translation hub.)
n
A record of past crimes of which an individual has been convicted.
n
Criminal behaviour or tendencies.
n
(UK, law) A prisoner accused but not yet tried.
n
Alternative spelling of exactor [A person who makes illegal or unreasonable demands; an extortioner.]
n
The convict population of a penal colony.
n
(US, law) A serious criminal offense, which, under United States federal law, is punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year or by death.
adj
(law) The most severe level of felony, typically involving planning or other aggravating factors.
n
Alternative spelling of hanging offence [(idiomatic) A crime so serious that it is punishable by means of death by hanging.]
n
(law) Often in the plural: a major crime or wrongdoing, notably one subject to trial before the highest courts which may impose the gravest punishments.
n
(law) A crime in common-law jurisdictions that may be prosecuted either summarily or as indictment.
n
(obsolete) One who implores.
n
The act of impropriating; putting an ecclesiastical benefice or tithes in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation.
n
(law) Participation in illegal behaviour by minors.
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(British spelling) Alternative form of lesser included offense [(law) A crime the elements of which coincide with the elements of a more serious crime, from which the prosecutor is therefore precluded from separately charging a criminal defendant.]
n
(law) A crime the elements of which coincide with the elements of a more serious crime, from which the prosecutor is therefore precluded from separately charging a criminal defendant.
adj
Punishable by lynching.
n
(law) A crime usually punishable upon conviction by a small fine or by a short term of imprisonment. In the USA, misdemeanants usually are incarcerated in county jail for less than one year, but felons usually are incarcerated in state or federal prison for more than one year. Crimes which are punishable by large fines or by longer imprisonment are sometimes called felonies.
n
Abbreviation of offender. [One who gives or causes offense, or does something wrong.]
n
A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.
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One who opposes another physically (in a fight, sport, game, or competition).
n
(obsolete) One who oppugns; an opponent.
n
white-collar crime committed by employees of an otherwise non-criminal organization, with or without the consent of the management and with at least some benefit to the organization.
adj
Of or relating to punishment.
n
One who perpetrates; especially, one who commits an offence or crime.
n
A person or thing that persecutes or harasses.
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The victim in such a sacrifice.
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(law) The most serious offence of a group of offenses that a person committed at the same time, or is charged with committing at the same time.
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(very rare) A policy of agitation.
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The principle of a family sharing the responsibility for a crime committed by one of its members.
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(law, Britain, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong) A crime in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury trial and/or indictment, as required for an indictable offence.
n
A person who has committed a thoughtcrime.
adj
That establishes stricter criminal penalties as a reaction to violent and property crime.
n
The people, often scapegoats, routinely arrested in response to a crime.
adj
Obsolete form of vanquished. [Defeated.]
n
(law) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.
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(UK, law) An additional financial penalty, levied on a convicted criminal, that goes into a pool to be distributed to victims of crime.
n
Protesting at inconsistency; refusing to act in one instance unless similar action is taken in other similar instances.
n
(law) A juvenile offender whose crime is sufficiently serious that they can be sentenced as an adult.
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