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Criminals ˈkrɪmɪnl Society Deal Hardened Career Noun Bre

Word criminal
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / ˈkrɪmɪnl / NAmE / ˈkrɪmɪnl /
Example
  • society does not know how to deal with hardened criminals (= people who regularly commit crimes and are not sorry for what they do).
  • a career criminal
  • he has been associating with known criminals.
  • he was tried as a war criminal.
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criminal

(noun)BrE / ˈkrɪmɪnl / NAmE / ˈkrɪmɪnl /
  1. a person who commits a crime
    • Society does not know how to deal with hardened criminals (= people who regularly commit crimes and are not sorry for what they do).
    • a career criminal

    Extra Examples

    • He has been associating with known criminals.
    • He was tried as a war criminal.
    • I told him to pass the information to the police so they could catch the criminals.
    • She was treated like a common criminal.
    • Sending these youngsters to prison simply trains them to become professional criminals.
    • Society does not know how to deal with hardened criminals.
    • career criminals

    Word Origin

    • late Middle English (as an adjective): from late Latin criminalis, from Latin crimen ‘judgement, offence’, crimin-, based on cernere ‘to judge’.
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