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habitual offender

habitual offender is the alternative form of repeat offender.

Meaning of repeat offender

Noun

repeat offender (plural repeat offenders)

  1. A person who has previously offended against the law, often someone who may be deemed incorrigible.
  2. One who performs a specific (often undesirable) action on multiple occasions.
    • At the risk of being branded a repeat offender. I must admit that this chapter is a reprise, in miniature, of an earlier book of mine with the same title.2011, Jeff Reid, Cat-Dependent No More, →ISBN

Forms of habitual offender

pluralhabitual offenders

Questions about habitual offender

What is habitual offender the alternative form of?
Habitual offender is the alternative form of repeat offender.

Words near habitual offender in the dictionary

  1. habitual abortion
  2. habitual abortions
  3. habitual aspect
  4. habitual aspects
  5. habitual be
  6. habitual offender
  7. habitual offenders
  8. habitualisation
  9. habitualisations
  10. habitualise
  11. habitualised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: habitual offender (page history and authors); repeat offender (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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