Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or an instance of infringing; a violation. See Synonyms at breach.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of infracting or breaking; a breakage or fracture.
- n. Breach; violation; infringement: as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, or law.
- n. An incomplete (greenstiek) fracture.
Wiktionary
- n. A minor offence, petty crime
- n. a violation; breach.
- n. A major violation of rules which leads to a penalty, if detected by the referee.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a crime less serious than a felony
Examples
“Nations shall have the right to bring to the attention of the Council any infraction, or _any danger of infraction_, of any of these obligations, and that the Council may thereupon take such action and give such direction as it may deem proper and effective in the circumstances. ”
“No other infraction is required for an individual to be detained.”
“My ban ends in 2015, so I guess my infraction is less severe than yours.”
“The recent downgrading by the governor which lowers the penalty from a misdemeanor to an infraction is absolutely a step in the right direction," he said.”
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“Neither infraction is protected under free speech or any other constitutional framework.”
“I think he should sue even if he did download the movie – the reaction to such a minor infraction is extreme and an abuse of power.”
“But matching the remedy to the infraction is different than overlooking the infraction entirely; the former is just, the latter is unjust.”
“For example, the mere fact that you had the recorder with you when you committed the traffic infraction is plenty of probable cause to seize it as evidence.”
“One minor infraction is not the same thing a a massive conspiracy.”
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“Our countries aren moving toward police states, where the most minor infraction is treated as if you murdered someone.”
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Crimes and Offences
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jwjarvis Among the possible infractions were failure to report at meetings Sep 14, 2010