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Plural of offender

regular plural

The plural of offender is offenders.

Forms of offender

Singularoffender /əˈfen.də(ɹ)/
Pluraloffenders
Countablecountable

Offenders in a sentence

  • Almost all down trains are late, however; the empty wagon trains are probably the worst offenders and one or two hours' late running by them is not unusual.1961 March, Warren Smith, “The problems of train regulation - a study of operation at Trent”, in Trains Illustrated, page 169
  • Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.From the entry form
  • The deinstitutionalization of minor offenders helps reduce prison overcrowding.From the entry deinstitutionalization
  • Lese majesty used to be a high crime, for which royal or imperial courts often put offenders to death.From the entry high crime
  • Is prison necessary for nondangerous offenders?From the entry nondangerous

Meaning of offender

  1. noun One who gives or causes offense, or does something wrong.
  2. noun A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.

Full definition of offender

Questions about the plural of offender

What is the plural of offender?
The plural of offender is offenders.
Is offender countable?
Offender is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: offender (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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