criminal act

collocation in English

meaningsofcriminalandact

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criminal
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈkrɪm.ɪ.nəl/us
/ˈkrɪm.ə.nəl/
relating ...
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act
noun
uk
/ækt/us
/ækt/
something that ...
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(Definition ofcriminalandactfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcriminal act

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What is clear, however, is that wood-gathering without the owners' permission was seen as acriminalact.
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Acriminalactis a social, though generally not sociable, act occurring in a social setting and implicated in a society's cultural and structural framework.
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Since this utterance creates an obligation on the part of the addressee to commit acriminalact, it is significantly obligation-enacting.
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Social criminality: those acts which blur the boundaries between the supposedly straightforwardcriminalact, whether for subsistence or profit.
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Of course, each of these speakers denies the masses the ability to textualize crime, to aestheticize beyond or instead of thecriminalactitself.
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When a private individual inflicts punishment, she acts on what she and not the state judges to be a justified response to acriminalact.
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I ask you, ladies and gentlemen, is it acriminalactto help a persecuted person in this situation?
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There are already many such imitations or toys in circulation, and realistic imitations can easily be constructed by those intent on acriminalact.
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We will be telling them that their pastime will be turned into acriminalact.
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It is acriminalactagainst the people to keep the economy squeezed down as it is now and not to allow it to expand.
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We are dealing with a question of conviction in regard to acriminalact, and it is a criminal court that will make that conviction.
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What deters most people who are considering acriminalactis the fear of arrest, conviction, prison and disgrace.
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The perpetration of violence against women is acriminalact, whether in public or in private.
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He might have been trespassing, but that was not acriminalact.
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Why is bribery more self-evidently acriminalactthan arms dealing without a licence?
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But acriminalactwould already have been committed by that purchaser either forging documents or representing himself to be another person.
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I believe that this act is therefore to be condemned on the grounds of international morality as acriminalact.
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I regret and condemn anycriminalact, wherever it happens, and justice should do its duty.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Whether this will be intentional, in other words acriminalact, or accidental is not the subject of today's debate.
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