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Another word for infringement

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Noun

  1. An act or instance of breaking a law or regulation or of nonfulfillment of an obligation or promise, for example

    See also:

    right

  2. An advance beyond proper or legal limits

    See also:

    enter

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Another word for infringement

Noun
      1. An opening made by a breakthrough, as in a wall, line of defense, etc.
      2. A failure to observe the terms, as of a law or promise, the customary forms, etc.; violation; infraction
      3. A break in friendly relations
      1. The act or an instance of infringing, as of a law or rule; a violation.
      1. The act of invading, especially the entrance of an armed force into a territory to conquer.
      2. An invading or being invaded
      3. An intrusion or encroachment:
      1. The exceeding of due bounds or limits.
      2. A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata.
      3. The act or an instance of transgressing; breach of a law, duty, etc.
    See also:

    violation

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Sentence Examples

  • On the 17th of December 1895 President Cleveland sent to Congress a special message calling attention to Great Britain's action in regard to the disputed boundary line between British Guiana and Venezuela, and declaring the necessity of action by the United States to prevent an infringement of the Monroe Doctrine.

  • Systematic infringement of English copyright was discreditable in itself, but sure evidence of an appetite for reading.

  • His one great economic blunder was the attempt to make the sale of spirits a government monopoly, which was an obvious infringement upon the privileges of the estates.

  • In the event of an illegal practice, payment, employment or hiring, committed or done inadvertently, relief may be given by the High Court, or by an election court, if the validity of the election is questioned on petition; but unless such relief is given (and it will be observed that it cannot be given for a corrupt as distinguished from an illegal practice), an infringement of the act may void the election altogether.

  • These Cluniac obedientiae differed from the ordinary Benedictine cells in being also places of punishment, to which monks who had been guilty of any grave infringement of the rules were relegated as to a kind of penitentiary.

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