Word.ws English Dictionary

lesser included offence

lesser included offence is the alternative form of lesser included offense.

Meaning of lesser included offense

Noun

lesser included offense (plural lesser included offenses)

  1. A crime the elements of which coincide with the elements of a more serious crime, from which the prosecutor is therefore precluded from separately charging a criminal defendant.
    • A robbery is an assault combined with a theft; a person can not be criminally charged with both the robbery and the assault that occurred during the robbery; the assault is a lesser included offense.

Forms of lesser included offence

plurallesser included offences

Questions about lesser included offence

What is lesser included offence the alternative form of?
Lesser included offence is the alternative form of lesser included offense.

Words near lesser included offence in the dictionary

  1. lesser green leafbirds
  2. lesser grey shrike
  3. lesser grey shrikes
  4. lesser hedgehog tenrec
  5. lesser hedgehog tenrecs
  6. lesser included offence
  7. lesser included offences
  8. lesser included offense
  9. lesser included offenses
  10. lesser jacana
  11. lesser jacanas

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lesser included offence (page history and authors); lesser included offense (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lesser included offence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lesser_included_offence. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.