Meaning of INFRINGEMENT
| Pronunciation: | | in'frinjmunt
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- [n] a crime less serious than a felony
- [n] an act that disregards an agreement or a right; "he claimed a violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment"
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| | Synonyms: | | infraction, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, offense, violation |
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| | See Also: | | actus reus, bearing false witness, breach of the peace, copyright infringement, crime, disorderly behavior, disorderly conduct, disturbance of the peace, false pretence, false pretense, foul, indecent exposure, infringement of copyright, law-breaking, lying under oath, misconduct, patent infringement, perjury, public nudity, sedition, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*fringe"ment\, n.
1. The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment;
as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or
constitution.
The punishing of this infringement is proper to that
jurisdiction against which the contempt is.
--Clarendon.
2. An encroachment on a patent, copyright, or other special
privilege; a trespass.
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| | Related Terms: | | adoption, appropriation, arrogation, assumption, bad faith, bankruptcy, borrowed plumes, breach, breach of contract, breach of faith, breach of law, breach of privilege, breach of promise, breach of trust, breakage, breakdown, breaking, civil disobedience, collapse, contravention, copying, crack-up, crippling, damage, derivation, deriving, destruction, detriment, dilapidation, disablement, disobedience, disrepair, encroachment, entrance, entrenchment, frowardness, harm, hobbling, hurt, hurting, imitation, impairment, impingement, imposition, incapacitation, incursion, indiscipline, indocility, infiltration, influx, infraction, injection, injury, inroad, insinuation, insubordination, interference, interjection, interloping, interposition, interposure, interruption, intervention, intractability, intrusion, invasion, irruption, lawbreaking, lawlessness, loss, maiming, mayhem, mischief, mocking, mutilation, naughtiness, noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobedience, obtrusion, offense, overstepping, passive resistance, pasticcio, pastiche, pirating, plagiarism, plagiary, playing God, recusancy, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, scathe, seizure, sickening, simulation, spoiling, taking, transgression, trespass, trespassing, uncooperativeness, unduteousness, undutifulness, unlawful entry, unsubmissiveness, usurpation, violation, violation of law, waywardness, weakening, willful disobedience |
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