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summary offences

summary offences is the plural of summary offence.

Meaning of summary offence

Noun

summary offence (plural summary offences)

  1. (Australia, Canada, Hong-Kong, UK) A crime in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury trial and/or indictment, as required for an indictable offence.

Questions about summary offences

What is summary offences the plural of?
Summary offences is the plural of summary offence.

Words near summary offences in the dictionary

  1. summary executions
  2. summary judgment
  3. summary judgments
  4. summary jurisdiction
  5. summary offence
  6. summary offences
  7. summary proceedings
  8. summas
  9. summat
  10. summate
  11. summated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: summary offences (page history and authors); summary offence (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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