juvenile delinquency

1. 1.

   an antisocial misdeed in violation of the law by a minor

   Synonymsdelinquency

   Broadermisbehavior

   law

Questions about juvenile delinquency

What does juvenile delinquency mean?

juvenile delinquency means "an antisocial misdeed in violation of the law by a minor".

What is another word for juvenile delinquency?

Close synonyms include delinquency. 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 juvenile delinquency a common word?

juvenile delinquency 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.