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crime is an illegal act for which someone can be punished by the government or police; activity that is against the law : illegal acts in general.

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Created by: eleonora86

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1. To import or export (goods) secretly, in violation of the law, especially without payment of legal duty. 2. To bring, take, put, etc., surreptitiously: She smuggled the gun into the jail inside a ...

Domain: Law enforcement; Category: Crime & punishment

1. The act, the practice, or an instance of robbing. 2. Law. the felonious taking of the property of another from his or her person or in his or her immediate presence, against his or her will, by ...

Domain: Law enforcement; Category: Crime & punishment

1. The unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse. 2. Any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person. 3. Statutory rape.

Domain: Law enforcement; Category: Crime & punishment

An assault or threat of violence upon a person, especially with intent to rob: A man held out a knife and made me give him my wallet.

Domain: Law enforcement; Category: Crime & punishment

To steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom: A gang took a rich man's son and asked the family for money.

Domain: Law enforcement; Category: Crime & punishment

1. To steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop: to hijack a load of whiskey. 2. To rob (a vehicle) after forcing it to stop: They hijacked the truck before it entered the ...

Domain: Law enforcement; Category: Crime & punishment

1. Deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage. 2. A particular instance of such deceit or trickery: mail fraud; ...

Domain: Law enforcement; Category: Crime & punishment

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