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infraction

[ in-frak-shuhn ]

noun

  1. breach; violation; infringement:

    an infraction of the rules.

  2. Medicine/Medical. an incomplete fracture of a bone.


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Other Words From

  • nonin·fraction noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of infraction1

First recorded in 1615–25, infraction is from the Latin word infrāctiōn- (stem of infrāctiō ). See infract, -ion

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Synonym Study

See breach.

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Example Sentences

Then comes a combination of tools based on the specific infraction.

The fee for such an administrative infraction is approximately $30.

They all were insisting that their alleged crime was really an administrative infraction.

Two weeks later, came another, bigger penalty, for the same infraction, and then a third.

Also, a “significant misdemeanor” or other infraction could disrupt their stay.

But it soon became apparent that his infraction of discipline in crossing the Ohio was not forgiven.

They were, besides, made amenable to a most rigorous system of laws, the least infraction of which was punished with death.

Most of them are the penalties imposed by nature because of the infraction of her laws.

To be found under a convoy is not, in itself, an infraction of the treaty, but the conduct of this convoy is to be considered.

All must obey, or compose, the same laws that ran without infraction through the entire experience of man.

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