first offender

1. 1.

   someone convicted for the first time

   Broaderconvict

Questions about first offender

What does first offender mean?

first offender means "someone convicted for the first time".

Is first offender a common word?

first offender 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.