Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British Variant of offense.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. etc. See offense, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of offending; a crime or sin; an affront or injury.
- n. The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
- n. team sports A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted with defence.
- n. team sports The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; contrasted with defence.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. See offense.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
- n. a feeling of anger caused by being offended
- n. a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others
- n. the action of attacking an enemy
- n. (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act
Etymologies
- From Latin offensa ("a striking against; displeasure; injury") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The main offence is under s15A of the Theft Act 1968, a section repealed by the Fraud Act 2006.”
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“The seriousness of the offence is always taken into account when a young person is sentenced to a DTO. on September 8, 2009 at 1: 32 pm inspectorgadget”
Citizen Focus – meet the “customer”. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
“Yes! and the offence is aggravated when you consider that it was someone else's folly.”
“The basis for the offence is ss. 142 (4) of the Highway Traffic Act,”
“The purpose of this offence is to protect young people between 16 and 18 years of age.”
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“Much more commonly, the Crown will proceed by way of summary conviction, in which case the offence is punishable by up to 18 months in jail.”
“The need to avoid offence is now seen as overriding any concept of privacy.”
Carol Thatcher, praying nurses and the abolition of private life
“While always setting the record straight, I make it clear that I know that no offence is intended and none is taken, and that I simply want all to be aware that we're Canadians, and not gringos.”
A wedding and christening in rural Oaxaca: The mandate of tradition
“As for those in the other side of the equasion, no offence is implied or intended.”
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“But now that every offence is arrestable, and that (due to RIPA, it seems) an officer must arrest a member of the public before they can ask them any questions, any contact with the police leads to an entry in the DNA and fingerprint databases.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘offence’.
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Hockey
As the playoffs are on, some Hockey terms, and likely some Canadianisms in here.
face off, playoff beard, playoff, faceoff, bodycheck, hipcheck, icing, pass, facemask, stick, puck, Peter Puck and 182 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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AFCO - fundamental rights
as enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
academic freedom, access, asylum, bargaining, citizen, cloning, cohesion, collective agreement, collective bargai..., confidentiality, conflict of interest, constraint and 357 more...
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EU - Eurovoc - politics
absolute majority, absolute monarchy, abstentionism, access to informa..., acquisition of arms, action brought be..., action for annulment, action to establi..., ad hoc committee, adjournment, adjournment motion, administration and 965 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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English British pronunciation
Differences betwen brithish and American english spelling or pronunciation.
centre, center, fibre, fiber, litre, liter, theatre, theater, colour, color, flavour, flavor and 18 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Words to learn
omit, in all likelihood, unlikely, utterly, every now and then, once in a while, deceptive, consequence, after all, ever since, reckon, show off and 52 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for offence.
ruzuzu Ha. Jan 11, 2013
bilby Please don't. Jan 10, 2013
oroboros Variant of offense. Aug 14, 2008