criminal record
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈkrɪmɪnəl ˈrɛkərd/
:
antecedentes penales
- Many employers conduct background checks to see if applicants have a criminal record.
- criminal record check
- a prior criminal record
- people with criminal records
Here we have her with her Christian cross, dehumanizing a man with no criminal record.
- Here we have her with her Christian cross, dehumanizing a man with no criminal record.
- And one of the things that's so unique about Dan is that he had some really, really trying personal struggles in his youth, including addictions and a criminal record.
- You have to disclose that you have a criminal record and and you can't vote and felons can't even vote.
- I decided to look this guy up and found out he has a lengthy criminal record such as drug paraphernalia possession, hit and run, assault and robbery.
- Once you're part of a gang, it's very difficult to extricate yourself and lead a different sort of life once you've been to prison and have a criminal record.
- So he'll do people who are here illegally with criminal records.
- They they all have a combination of mental treatment and a criminal record.
- They're not like the kid in Uvalde hadn't, hadn't, didn't have a criminal record.
- And now her criminal record and welfare are her past and her future is bright.
- But now I've, I've got no, no, no criminal record for a class drugs or anything like that.
- As you say, they're criminal records and they're dumping them in towns and cities throughout the UK.
- I feel like not having a criminal record should be like, you know, part of the the thing.
Examples
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Several companies have started compiling criminal records, making them available to everyone in the country and indeed the world.
Academic text (2009) -
There is no central database like a criminal record check that would house such records.
Blog text (23) -
I looked into your criminal record.
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I thought maybe you could find out if he had a criminal record.
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Do they have criminal records?
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Smart thinking, getting my criminal record checked.
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I have a criminal record, Jason.
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Eventually, Waheed is unable to buy his family a house because of his criminal record.
Academic text (2018) -
Few have criminal records; many have advanced degrees and come from a high socioeconomic background.
Academic text (1999) -
Simon was a counselor for Clean Break, which helped troubled teens with criminal records.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
38
7.6
A police list of a person's arrests and convictions
An informal word for an official record of a person's offence
Antonyms
How Public
- Literature
1
6.3
- Literature
73
3.3
- Formal
322
4.4
∞
2.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'criminal' (relating to crime) combined with 'record' (a written account) straightforwardly yields 'an account of criminal convictions'. This is a common, cross-linguistically paralleled noun phrase and follows normal English noun-noun/head-modifier composition, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Criminal record comes from the simple idea of keeping a written record of a person's 'crimes' in a court or police book. So, today criminal record means an official list of someone's 'convictions'.