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cognizable offences

cognizable offences is the plural 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.

Questions about cognizable offences

What is cognizable offences the plural of?
Cognizable offences is the plural of cognizable offence.

Words near cognizable offences in the dictionary

  1. cognitology
  2. cognits
  3. cognizability
  4. cognizable
  5. cognizable offence
  6. cognizable offences
  7. cognizableness
  8. cognizably
  9. cognizance
  10. cognizances
  11. cognizant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cognizable offences (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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