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cognisable offence

cognisable offence is the alternative form of cognizable offence.

Meaning of cognizable offence

Noun

cognizable offence (plural cognizable offences)

  1. (South-Asia, criminal law) a criminal offence, usually serious in nature, that the offender may be arrested without warrant.

Forms of cognisable offence

pluralcognisable offences

Origin of cognisable offence

From cognisable + offence.

Questions about cognisable offence

What is cognisable offence the alternative form of?
Cognisable offence is the alternative form of cognizable offence.

Words near cognisable offence in the dictionary

  1. Cognevich
  2. cogniac
  3. cogniacs
  4. cognification
  5. cognisable
  6. cognisable offence
  7. cognisable offences
  8. cognisably
  9. cognisance
  10. cognisances
  11. cognisant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cognisable offence (page history and authors); cognizable offence (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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