"law-breaking" | Definition and Related Words

law-breaking

Noun

referred to in: criminal law - the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment
associated with:
- abduct, kidnap, nobble, snatch - take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
- impress, shanghai - take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship
- commandeer, highjack, hijack, pirate - take arbitrarily or by force
- skyjack - subject an aircraft to air piracy
- carjack - take someone's car from him by force, usually with the intention of stealing it
- extort - obtain through intimidation
- blackmail - obtain through threats
- scalp - sell illegally, as on the black market
- bootleg - sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol
- black market, run - deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- fob off, foist off, palm off - sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive
- push - sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs)
- black marketeer - deal on the black market
- pyramid - use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal
- ransom, redeem - exchange or buy back for money; under threat
- traffic - deal illegally
- lift, rustle - take illegally
- shoplift - steal in a store
- hold up, stick up - rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat
- mug - rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violence
- pirate - copy illegally; of published material
- lift, plagiarise, plagiarize - take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
- crib - take unauthorized (intellectual material)
- bribe, buy, corrupt, grease one's palms - make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
- rake off - take money from an illegal transaction
- buy off, pay off - pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor
- loot, plunder - take illegally; of intellectual property
- smuggle - import or export without paying customs duties
- kick back - pay a kickback; make an illegal payment
is a type of: offence, offense - a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right
subtypes:
- 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
- had crime - (Islam) serious crimes committed by Muslims and punishable by punishments established in the Koran
- highjack, hijack - 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
- infraction, infringement, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, violation - a crime less serious than a felony
- commission, committal, perpetration - the act of committing a crime
- attack, attempt - the act of attacking
- tazir crime - (Islam) minor crimes committed by Muslims; crimes that are not mentioned in the Koran so judges are free to punish the offender in any appropriate way
- regulatory offence, regulatory offense, statutory offence, statutory offense - crimes created by statutes and not by common law
- thuggery - violent or brutal acts as of thugs
- high treason, lese majesty, treason - 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; violation of rules of war
same as: crime, criminal offence, criminal offense

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