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status offenders

status offenders is the plural of status offender.

Meaning of status offender

Noun

status offender (plural status offenders)

  1. One who commits a status offense; especially a juvenile delinquent taken into state care for uncontrollable behavior at home.
    • The Department concluded that if the State fully complied with the Federal requirement for deinstitutionalization of status offenders it would need substantially more group homes and child caring facilities.1978, Removing Status Offenders from Secure Facilities, United States: General Accounting Office, page 77

Questions about status offenders

What is status offenders the plural of?
Status offenders is the plural of status offender.

Words near status offenders in the dictionary

  1. status Indians
  2. status line
  3. status lines
  4. status mixtus
  5. status offender
  6. status offenders
  7. status offense
  8. status offenses
  9. status quo
  10. status quo ante
  11. status quo ante bellum

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