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Plural of violation

regular plural

The plural of violation is violations.

Forms of violation

Singularviolation /ˌvaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
Pluralviolations /ˌvaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃənz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Violations in a sentence

  • They weighed every third truck in to check for overweight violations.From the entry weigh in
  • Some of the usage prescriptions improved clarity and were kept; others that yielded discordant violations of idiom were eventually revised.From the entry idiom
  • In past two years, Mohali police issued a paltry 17 challans to school bus operators for violations.2012 January 3, The Times of India. From the entry challan
  • Adults have most of their experiences with proximic violations when they encounter people from different cultures.1995, Shannon Brumfield, Fix It Before It Breaks: A Parent-Teacher's Guidebook to Ensuring Your Child's Academic and Social Success, page…. From the entry proximic
  • Comparisons were made between the home and away team's number of fouls and violations.1960, Peter Lynn Kasson, An Analysis of College Basketball Officiating, page 25. From the entry away team

Meaning of violation

  1. noun An infraction or a failure to follow a rule.
  2. noun Rape; sexual activity forced on another person without their consent.
  3. noun An insult, especially a severe one.

Full definition of violation

Questions about the plural of violation

What is the plural of violation?
The plural of violation is violations.
Is violation countable?
Violation is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: violation (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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