lawbreaking
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈlɔːˌbreɪkɪŋ/
:
infracción
- Many community programs aim to reduce lawbreaking by providing education and support to at-risk youth.
- deter future lawbreaking
- widespread lawbreaking
Examples
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Lawbreaking often leads to serious consequences, including fines and imprisonment for offenders.
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I'd actually be interested in seeing a study of lawbreaking by all users of the road.
Blog text (23) -
You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other lawbreaking.
Blog text (9) -
In San Diego, Vera got a phone number and called the cops to report the lawbreaking.
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This charge of widespread lawbreaking by members of the NSC, raised by the President's own son, is cause for great concern.
Academic text (2014) -
Anything that weakens self-control and reduces foresight is likely to increase lawbreaking activities.
Academic text (2003) -
For all the talk about how radical and lawless the Bush administration has been, this widely shared view that our political leaders should be immune from consequences for lawbreaking is the administration's defining belief.
Blog text (24) -
Galambos and Kolaric (1994) observed that drug abuse, lawbreaking, and teenage pregnancy, which are on the rise in Canada and the U.S., may contribute to a feeling that youth is isolated, marginalized, and even stigmatized.
Academic text (2002) -
The rise in lawbreaking has prompted local authorities to increase police patrols in the area.
Synonyms
418
4.1
Breaking a law, rule, agreement, or someone's rights
351
3.3
An act that breaks a law or rule
117
3.7
Bad actions that break the law or moral rules
103
6.7
Breaking a law, rule, or someone else's rights
49
8.1
An action that breaks a law, rule, or moral principle
47
7.2
A small break of a rule or law often punished with a fine
4
3.7
Doing things that are illegal
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8.2
To break a law, rule, or agreement
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7.1
A bad action that breaks rules or harms other people
Antonyms
How Serious
- Formal
9
8.2
- Specialized
310
5.5
3
3.8
- Specialized
133
6.0
47
7.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The noun lawbreaking combines law ('the rules of a country') and breaking from break ('to not follow'). As a noun, lawbreaking means the act of 'breaking the law', in other words doing something illegal.