statutory offense

Questions about statutory offense

What is another word for statutory offense?

It depends which statutory offense you mean. In the sense “crimes created by statutes and not by common law”, the synonyms are statutory offence, regulatory offense, regulatory offence. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of statutory offense?

WordNet records no antonym for statutory offense. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for statutory offense come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of statutory offense

• Full entry for statutory offenseAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for statutory offenseWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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