| NOUN | act | sexual assault, sexual abuse, sex crime, sex offense | 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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| 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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| Example | "most states have replaced the common law definition of rape with statutes defining sexual assault" | |
| Synonyms | sexual abuse, sex crime, sex offense | |
| Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
| Narrower | molestation | The act of subjecting someone to unwanted or improper sexual advances or activity (especially women or children) |
| 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 |
| Spanish | abuso sexual, estupro, violación | |
| Catalan | violació | |
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