crime
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
crime/krʌɪm/
▶noun
- 1 an action which constitutes a serious offence against an individual or the state and is punishable by law.
■ such actions collectively: the victims of crime.
- 2 informal a shameful or deplorable action or state of affairs.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘sin’): via OFr. from L. crimen ‘judgement, offence’, based on cernere ‘to judge’.
'crime' also found in these Oxford entries:
abet
- accessory
- accomplice
- accuse
- actus reus
- admit
- apprehend
- body bag
- break
- burglary
- buster
- capital punishment
- capo
- charge
- clue
- commission
- commit
- common
- concert
- confess
- confession
- copycat
- corpus delicti
- cover-up
- crime passionnel
- criminal
- criminal record
- criminology
- crusade
- cui bono?
- culprit
- degree
- delinquency
- delinquent
- detect
- detective
- detinue
- doli capax
- doli incapax
- drink-driving
- enormity
- entrap
- exclusion order
- extradite
- eye
- fact
- felony
- find
- first-degree
