infringement

English

Etymology

infringe +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfɹɪndʒmənt/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: in‧fringe‧ment

Noun

infringement (countable and uncountable, plural infringements)

1. A violation or breach, as of a law.
   • 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Georgia, ranked 16th in the world, dominated the breakdown before half-time and forced England into a host of infringements, but fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili missed three penalties.

2. An encroachment on a right, a person, a territory, or a property.
   • 2008 February 27, Kira Cochrane, “How could it happen again?”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     As soon as it was suggested that it was considering the Swedish model – in which men are criminalised for buying sex, but the women working in prostitution are decriminalised – a slew of prominent male columnists started arguing against this infringement on a man's right to purchase a woman's body.

Antonyms

• noninfringement

Related terms

• infringe
• infringer

Translations

violation

• Arabic: مِسَاس m (misās)
• Dutch: inbreuk (nl), schending (nl)
• Finnish: loukkaus (fi), rikkominen (fi); oikeudenloukkaus (of the rights of another)
• French: infraction (fr) f
• German: Übergriff (de) m, Verletzung (de) f
• Hungarian: megsértés (hu), megszegés (hu), áthágás (hu)
• Italian: infrazione (it) f, violazione (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overtredelse m, brudd n

  Nynorsk: brot n

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• Portuguese: infração (pt) f, infracção f
• Romanian: violare (ro) f, infracţiune (ro) f, încălcare (ro) f
• Russian: наруше́ние (ru) n (narušénije)
• Slovene: kršitev f
• Spanish: infracción (es) f, vulneración (es) f
• Swedish: överträdelse (sv) c
• Turkish: ihlâl (tr)

an encroachment on a right, a person, a territory, or a property

• Hungarian: jogsértés
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