petty crime
petty crime · petty crimes
проступок, правонарушение
Kleinkriminalität, Bagatelldelikt, Bagatellkriminalität
A minor, less serious crimeA minor, less serious crime.
» We shouldn't be imprisoning people for such petty crimes.
ferra · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)A minor, less serious crime.
The gang progressed from petty crime to bank robbery.
Bagatelldelikt, Kleinkriminalität, Bagatellkriminalität
Examples
1 sentencesWe shouldn't be imprisoning people for such petty crimes.
Translations
5 languagesDeutsch
By meaning 2
minor criminal act:
minor crime collectively:
Forms
plural: petty crimes| Singular | petty crime |
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regular
Synonyms
1 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsDerivedpetty criminal
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.