to breach
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4.5
- verb
- /briːtʃ/
- Formal
:
incumplir
- He was warned that if he breached his parole conditions, he would return to prison.
- breach confidentiality
- breach a contract
- breach an agreement
Maybe you won't trust that person again who breached your trust once.
- Maybe you won't trust that person again who breached your trust once.
- The wrongful threat in this case was the threat to breach the contract.
- And I've said nothing here that would ever breach anything like that.
- I don't think they'll show you a picture of the man because that would breach, like, really.
Examples
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The company will take legal action against anyone who breaches their contract.
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If we are accused in the public domain, we must not in any way breach confidentiality in our response.
Academic text (2012) -
The wrongful threat in this case was the threat to breach the contract.
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Only two months after he was released, he was recalled to prison for having breached his licence conditions.
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However, to date, all parties to the agreement have breached the cease-fire on numerous occasions.
Academic text (2009) -
They now face charges for breaching COVID lockdown rules.
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SUFI submitted multiple claims alleging that the Air Force breached the contract.
Academic text (2017) -
The Antiquities Act provides for fines and imprisonment for persons breaching the various sections.
Academic text (1996) -
Refusal to provide the required urine sample breaches prison rules and is punishable by 28 days' loss of remission.
Academic text (1998) -
If you breach the rules during the competition, you will face serious penalties.
Synonyms
627
4.4
Break a law, rule, agreement, or promise
206
3.3
To act against a rule, law, or popular opinion
68
6.8
Break a rule or law and go against someone's rights
65
4.6
Break a law, rule, contract or promise
25
8.5
To break a promise or agreement and not do what you said you would do
12
7.8
To do something that breaks a law, rule, or your idea of right and wrong
2
8.2
To break a law, rule, or agreement
To break a law, rule, contract, or promise
Antonyms
Idioms
4
8.2
To step forward and help in a difficult situation when others cannot or will not
- Literature
To try again to face a difficult situation even after failing before
Compounds
- Formal
12
3.6
Failure to do what a contract requires, for example not delivering goods or not paying
- Formal
6
8.2
A serious failure to follow a contract that lets the other side end it or claim money
- Archaic
1
9.5
Failing to keep a promise to marry someone that can lead to a court case
- Formal
1
9.9
A person or company saying before the agreed time that they will not do what the contract says
A crime of illegally taking money or things someone gave you to look after and keeping them for yourself
- Formal
A seller that does not keep a promise that something bought will work or be repaired
Failure by a seller to keep a promise that the buyer can own the property without debts or claims
- Formal
When one side makes a contract impossible to carry out before it is due
- Jargon
A break of a contract that does not end it but lets the harmed person ask for money
How Serious
Surface Forms
Etymology
Breach as a verb also comes from the same root meaning 'to break'. That is why to breach a law, rule, or contract means to 'break' it or fail to keep your promise.