criminal offence

Questions about criminal offence

What does criminal offence mean?

criminal offence means "(criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act".

What is another word for criminal offence?

Close synonyms include crime, criminal offense, law-breaking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is criminal offence a common word?

criminal offence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.