breach

Examples

• All

• The incident was considered a breach of their agreed terms, leading to a loss of trust between the partners.

• The district court dismissed all claims except for the breach of contract claim.

  Academic text (2017)

• 14 working days after this breach of contract...

  Wasted Hours (2018)

• OK, so let's start with the breach of contract claims.

  Patrick Boyle

• Your sending this message all over the world may well be a breach of national security.

  Fiction book (1997)

• How should the law treat the breach of that confidentiality promise?

• And there are lines that when a foreign power steps over them, they're in breach of international law.

  Big Think

• Rather than litigate, the parties decided to settle the breach of contract claim.

  Academic text (2017)

• The plaintiff argued that the clause applied only to the defendant's claim for breach of contract.

  Academic text (2017)

• MARJORIE: Well, strictly speaking, there should be no reductions, since there's not yet been any breach of contract.

  The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)

Synonyms

V

violation

vsbreach

418 4.1

Breaking a law, rule, agreement, or someone's rights

focuses on failing to meet obligations or promises rather than active breaking

Antonyms

C

compliance

171 5.0

Obeying rules or orders from people in charge

F

fulfillment

• US

58 3.6

A feeling of happiness and satisfaction when you achieve something important

Idioms

I

into the breach

4 8.2

To step forward and help in a difficult situation when others cannot or will not

S

to step into the breach

• Informal

2 7.3

To take responsibility and act when someone else cannot

H

honor in the breach

• Literature

9.9

A belief that breaking an unfair rule is right

O

once more into the breach

• Literature

9.9

To try again to face a difficult situation even after failing before

Compounds

B

breach of contract

• Formal

12 3.6

Failure to do what a contract requires, for example not delivering goods or not paying

M

material breach

• Formal

6 8.2

A serious failure to follow a contract that lets the other side end it or claim money

B

breach of trust

4 6.7

To break the trust someone gives you by acting dishonestly or failing a duty

B

breach of promise

• Archaic

1 9.5

Failing to keep a promise to marry someone that can lead to a court case

B

breach of the peace

• UK

1 5.0

An action that makes people in public feel unsafe or upset

B

breach of duty

• Formal

1 6.5

Not doing what you must by law or by what is right to keep others safe

A

anticipatory breach

• Formal

1 9.9

A person or company saying before the agreed time that they will not do what the contract says

B

breach of tradition

6.3

An action that goes against customs people have followed for a long time

B

breach of trust with fraudulent intent

• UK

9.9

A crime of illegally taking money or things someone gave you to look after and keeping them for yourself

B

breach of warranty

• Formal

4.4

A seller that does not keep a promise that something bought will work or be repaired

B

breach of the covenant of warranty

• UK

9.9

Failure by a seller to keep a promise that the buyer can own the property without debts or claims

C

constructive breach

• Formal

9.6

When one side makes a contract impossible to carry out before it is due

P

partial breach

• Jargon

7.5

A break of a contract that does not end it but lets the harmed person ask for money

How Serious

crime

∞ 1.4

breach

• Formal

92 4.4

violation

418 4.1

infraction

47 7.2

Surface Forms

Etymology