alleged act

collocation in English

meaningsofallegedandact

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alleged
adjective
uk
/əˈledʒd/us
/əˈledʒd/
said or thought by some people to be the stated bad or illegal thing, although you have ...
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act
noun
uk
/ækt/us
/ækt/
something that ...
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(Definition ofallegedandactfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofalleged act

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Will this form of highlighting anallegedactor incident be the signal for the committee to act?
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It will have to decide whether there has been discrimination and to do so it will have to take evidence from both parties involved about theallegedactof discrimination.
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Criminal cases followed paths determined by the severity of the alleged acts.
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Secondly, we have voted to set up a commission to investigate alleged acts of discrimination, as well as to do lots of other profitable things.
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This was a response to alleged acts of corruption carried out by previous ministers.
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The suit listed thousands of alleged acts of election fraud and irregularities in twenty parishes.
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Its primary activity is the investigation and prosecution of alleged acts of copyright infringement.
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You must not first look at the oral contract and then see whether the alleged acts of part performance are consistent with it.
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We expected he would go farther west, into a region less accessible, where his movements might escape notice for weeks, except as the alleged acts of some marauding party.
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