Recidivism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A tendency to recidivate.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Committing new offenses after being punished for a crime.
  • n. Chronic repetition of criminal or other antisocial behavior.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The state or quality of being recidivous; relapse
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Relapse into crime; the conduct or condition of a recidivist.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. habitual relapse into crime
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    reversion    relapsing    lapsing    lapse    relapse    backsliding    reverting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    relapse   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    thoughthey    retrogradation    poltroonery    color-blindness    reinfection    guiltiness    portal/url-trx.jsp?mgtitle=sex    criminologist    warehousing    prepayment   
     
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