[
US
/ˌɪnˈfɹækʃən/
]
[ UK /ɪnfɹˈækʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɪnfɹˈækʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a crime less serious than a felony
How To Use infraction In A Sentence
- ‘Typically, in the past, debarments have lasted three to five years for lesser infractions,’ he says.
- Researchers then asked the injured parties how strongly they'd actually feel about such infractions.
- The centerpiece of that strategy is the use of minor infractions as pretexts to lock up suspects on whom the government lacks sufficient evidence to accuse them of more serious crimes.
- If Bertuzzi were to be sued, every player who got a sliver or a hangnail because of an infraction, would be out for some money.
- The traditional spanking-or "paddling" - punishment for infractions was not so much in evidence anymore. Homoeroticism In The Ranks
- The enforcement procedure had not been sufficiently defined with respect to infractions.
- One-way traffic, m'lud, summed up his driving infraction.
- He spent two and a half years in the Navy, eventually given a general discharge under honorable conditions, following several minor infractions and an attitude which he describes as marginally insubordinate. The Piano Teacher
- The infractions are limitless: The endless list of political prisoners and Mumia Abu-Jamal readily come to mind as attestment to this fact. Black America Under Siege: Without and Within
- The threat of collective punishment for individual infractions is one of the most powerful motivators in military training. The Army We Have