English > crime: 2 senses > noun 1, actMeaning | (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act. |
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Example | "a long record of crimes" |
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Synonyms | criminal offense, criminal offence, law-breaking |
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Category of | black marketeer | Deal on the black market |
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blackmail | Obtain through threats / threats |
bootleg | sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol |
bribe, corrupt, buy, grease one's palms | make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence |
buy off, pay off | pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor |
carjack | Take someone's car from him by force, usually with the intention of stealing it |
commandeer, hijack, highjack, pirate | Take arbitrarily or by force |
crib | Take unauthorized (intellectual material) |
extort | Obtain through intimidation |
foist off, palm off, fob off | sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive |
hold up, stick up | rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat |
kick back | pay a kickback |
kidnap, nobble, abduct, snatch | take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom |
loot, plunder | Take illegally |
mug | rob at gunpoint or with the threat / threat of violence |
pirate | Copy illegally |
plagiarize, plagiarise, lift | Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech |
push | sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs) |
pyramid | Use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal |
rake off | Take money from an illegal transaction |
ransom, redeem | Exchange or buy back for money |
run, black market | Deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor |
rustle, lift | Take illegally |
scalp | sell illegally, as on the black market |
shanghai, impress | Take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship |
shoplift | steal in a store |
skyjack | subject an aircraft to air piracy |
smuggle | import or export without paying customs duties |
traffic | Deal illegally |
Category | criminal law | The body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment |
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Narrower | Had crime | (Islam) serious crimes committed by Muslims and punishable by punishments established in the Koran |
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Tazir crime | (Islam) minor crimes committed by Muslims |
attack, attempt | The act of attacking |
barratry | The offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels |
capital offense | A crime so serious that capital punishment is considered appropriate |
cybercrime | crime committed using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity or sell contraband or stalk victims or disrupt operations with malevolent programs |
felony | A serious crime (such as murder or arson) |
forgery | criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud |
fraud | Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person |
hijack, highjack | seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination |
mayhem | The willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another person |
misdemeanor, misdemeanour, infraction, violation, infringement | A crime less serious than a felony |
perpetration, commission, committal | The act of committing a crime |
statutory offense, statutory offence, regulatory offense, regulatory offence | crimes created by statutes and not by common ... / common law |
thuggery | violent or brutal acts as of thugs |
treason, high treason, lese majesty | A crime that undermines the offender's government |
vice crime | A vice that is illegal |
victimless crime | An act that is legally a crime but that seem to have no victims |
war crime | A crime committed in wartime |
Broader | offense, offence | A transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right |
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Spanish | crimen, delito, delitos, infracción |
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Catalan | crim, delicte, infracció |
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Adjectives | criminal | involving or being or having the nature of a crime |
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Verbs | criminalise | declare illegal |
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incriminate, criminate | bring an accusation against |
incriminate | suggest that someone is guilty |