cybercrime

1. 1.

   crime committed using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity or sell contraband or stalk victims or disrupt operations with malevolent programs

   Broadercrime

Other forms of cybercrime

plural

cybercrimes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cybercrime

What does cybercrime mean?

cybercrime means "crime committed using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity or sell contraband or stalk victims or disrupt operations with malevolent programs".

How many syllables are in cybercrime?

cybercrime has 3 syllables: cy-ber-crime. The stress falls on "cy".

Is cybercrime a common word?

cybercrime 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.