Infringement
[ɪn'frɪn(d)ʒm(ə)nt] or [ɪn'frɪndʒmənt]
Definition
(n.) The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution.
(n.) An encroachment on a patent, copyright, or other special privilege; a trespass.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Breaking, breach, infraction, violation, transgression, disobedience, non-observance.
Editor: Margie
Examples
- No infringement, we beg, ladies. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The miseries it entails are genuine miseries--not points of etiquette or infringements of convention. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Eaton: The reason for the delay in beginning and pushing suits for infringements of the lamp patent has never been generally understood. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Does medical jurisprudence provide nothing against these infringements? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Labor organization, factory laws, health regulations are still fought as infringements of liberty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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