crimes

Noun

crime (countable and uncountable, plural crimes)

1. (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.
   • the commission of a crime

   Synonyms:

   criminal offence, unlawfulness

2. (countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
   • Those methods of saving money should be a crime.

   Synonyms:

   delinquency, wrongdoing, delict, error, malfeasance, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, offense, peccadillo

3. (countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.
   • the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 46
4. (uncountable) Criminal acts collectively.
   • an effort by the police to tackle crime in the city

   Synonyms:

   criminality, delinquency

5. (uncountable) The habit or practice of committing crimes.
   • Crime doesn’t pay.

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