English > sex offense: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | A statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat. |
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| Synonyms | sexual assault, sexual abuse, sex crime |
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| Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
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| Narrower | molestation | The act of subjecting someone to unwanted or improper sexual advances or activity (especially women or children) |
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| rape, violation, assault, ravishment | The crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will |
| Broader | statutory offense, statutory offence, regulatory offense, regulatory offence | crimes created by statutes and not by common ... / common law |
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| Spanish | abuso sexual, estupro, violación |
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| Catalan | violació |
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