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infringement
infringement
noun
Definition of INFRINGEMENT
a failure to uphold the requirements of law, duty, or obligation <any government action limiting freedom of speech is an infringement of the U.S. Constitution>
Related Words misconduct, misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision, offense (or offence), sin, wrong; disregard, forgetting, ignoring, nonobservance, overlooking; delinquency, dereliction, neglect; encroachment, intrusion, invasion
Near Antonyms respecting, upholding
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