Phrase Hound found 17 phrases and 3 compound words that contain offence. The most common are listed below. Open offence in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 17
- criminal offenceA crime.
- summary offenceA crime in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury trial and/or indictment, as required for an indictable offence.
- hanging offenceA crime so serious that it is punishable by means of death by hanging.
- indictable offenceAn offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury, in contrast to a summary offence.
- capital offenceCommonwealth of Nations spelling of capital offense.
- dual offenceSynonym of hybrid offence: A crime in common-law jurisdictions that may be prosecuted either summarily or as indictment.
- hybrid offenceA crime in common-law jurisdictions that may be prosecuted either summarily or as indictment.
- either-way offenceSynonym of hybrid offence: A crime in common-law jurisdictions that may be prosecuted either summarily or as indictment.
- lesser included offenceAlternative form of lesser included offense: A crime the elements of which coincide with the elements of a more serious crime, from which the prosecutor is therefore precluded from separately charging a criminal defendant.
- cognizable offencea criminal offence, usually serious in nature, that the offender may be arrested without warrant.
- arrestable offenceA criminal offence such that the offender may be arrested without warrant.
- cognisable offenceAlternative form of cognizable offence: a criminal offence, usually serious in nature, that the offender may be arrested without warrant.
- weapons offenceThe possession or use of a weapon when committing a crime.
- self-offenceOne's own offence.
- take offenceAlternative spelling of take offense: To feel (and usually to show) resentment at another's actions or words.
- offence to be taken into considerationAn additional criminal offence which a defendant agrees to admit to following their conviction, which is formally taken into account when they are sentenced, but with a lesser weight than a full conviction.
- offence taken into considerationAlternative form of offence to be taken into consideration: An additional criminal offence which a defendant agrees to admit to following their conviction, which is formally taken into account when they are sentenced, but with a lesser …
Compound words 3
- offencelessAlternative form of offenseless: Unoffending; innocent; inoffensive; harmless.
- reoffenceThe act of reoffending; committing a further crime.
- cyberoffenceAlternative form of cyberoffense: A criminal offense committed by means of the Internet or in cyberspace.