status offense
status offense · status offenses
An action that is prohibited to a certain class of people, such as consumption of…An action that is prohibited to a certain class of people, such as consumption of alcohol by minors, or mixed-race marriages under apartheid.
Meaning
1 sensesAn action that is prohibited to a certain class of people, such as consumption of alcohol by minors, or mixed-race marriages under apartheid.
Forms
plural: status offenses| Singular | status offense |
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedstatus offender