violation

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  1. noun The act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated. See Synonyms at breach.

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  • Now, Adam C. Weinstein, of St. Charles, has sued the department for what he calls a violation of his constitutional rights. —  Tongue Tied 3
  • AT&T blames a third-party vendor for apologizes for what it calls a violation of its own free-speech policy and says it's negotiating with the band to stream the unedited performance on its Disney's squeaky-clean tween queen may be helping your kids download porn or worse. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • This violation is amplified when it is done with the goal of denying the occupied people their self-determination. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Against this background, if fish-quota violation is the problem, don't the detainees have the right of finding fishermen in other fishing jurisdictions who can sell their quotas to the McBrides, with minimal penalties. —  UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World
  • And the violation was then mistakenly entered into the court computer system as being a felony. —  legitgov
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violations ·  breach ·  disregard ·  infringement ·  injustice ·  neglect ·  observance ·  abuse ·  defiance ·  infraction ·  betrayal ·  fraud
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  1. from French violation = Spanish violacion = Portuguese violação = Italian violazione, from Latin violatio(n-), an injury, a profanation, from violare, violate: see violate.
 

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/vaɪəˈleɪʃən/
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