English
Noun
repeat offender (plural repeat offenders )
A person who has previously offended against the law, often someone who may be deemed incorrigible .
One who performs a specific (often undesirable ) action on multiple occasions .
2011 , Jeff Reid, Cat-Dependent No More , →ISBN :At the risk of being branded a repeat offender . I must admit that this chapter is a reprise, in miniature, of an earlier book of mine with the same title.
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repeat offender
Chinese:
Mandarin: 慣犯 / 惯犯 (zh) ( guànfàn ) , 惯犯 (zh) ( guànfàn )
Czech: recidivista (cs) m
Dutch: recidivist (nl) m , recidiviste f , draaideurcrimineel (nl)
Finnish: uusintarikollinen
French: récidiviste (fr) m or f
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German: Mehrfachtäter (de) m , Mehrfachtäterin f , Wiederholungstäter (de) m , Wiederholungstäterin (de) f
Indonesian: residivis (id) c , bramacorah (id) c , penjahat kambuhan (id) c
Polish: recydywista m , recydywistka f
Portuguese: reincidente m or f
Russian: рецидиви́ст (ru) m ( recidivíst ) , рецидиви́стка (ru) f ( recidivístka )
Spanish: reincidente (es) m or f
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